Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, falsely claimed Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
  • Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.

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  • Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    So many prison sentences in his wake- none of them are his.

    The hallmark of a truly innocent man.

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    The judge really have her hell, it’s worth reading. Another article by The Guardian had this gem:

    “She also told the judge she cannot go to prison because she needs to sleep on a magnetic mattress, which she has been using since 1995 to help with health conditions such as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.”

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    May she die of an embarrassing and uncomfortable medical condition exactly 5 minutes before being released.

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    56 minutes ago

    She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell

    I can pretty much guarantee there are no experts associated with Mike Lindell.

    • DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee
      33·
      4 hours ago

      Going to prison for 7 years, at 69 years of age. For a crook that probably doesn’t even know her name. smh. The charge should be treason, that’s what she did.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    4 hours ago

    All these sentences for people who literally tried to subvert our Democracy are light as hell. Slap them for 15 years at a minimum.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 hours ago

      I totally agree, for her that’s likely a life sentence. I wonder if there isn’t some form of psychiatric help some of these people could benefit from. They’re all deeply brainwashed. Subjecting them to the people who have been portrayed so long as the enemy might change some minds. Though, I don’t know that I’d want to subject minorities to them.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 hours ago

        Sometimes, people really do have bad intentions. This is one of those times. They don’t need psychiatric help. They need swift justice.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          There’s no doubt she had bad intentions. The government is full of people with bad intentions. Taken at face value, somewhere between 40% and 60% of the US has bad intentions. Does that mean we’re almost half evil or that a lot of us are programmed horribly?

          My father, born and raised in Appalachia, was born into racism. Met a black guy, he was nice to my dad. Over the years my dad liked him and considered him a friend. Years later he recounts that this guy was one of the good N’s. JFC dad, where do I start? It’s not that an entire race of people is bad; you’ve been lied to your whole life and watch news that perpetuates that lie. It’s the same overall story with an Indian guy from work who shared some of his family’s curry with him. “He’s one of the good ones…” He votes with the republicans because of “all these horrible minorities waving flags on top buildings”. He’s only ever met a couple and says they’re good. He’s not evil, he’s just been lied to his whole life and has never been exposed to enough minorities to get de-programmed. Would he throw a box of democratic votes in the river if no one was looking? His friends, neighbors, and politicians are telling him he’s going to get overrun and shot by minorities if the left keeps winning. He might. Thankfully, he’ll never be in that position, but their programming is intensely strong.

  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Allowed access to the voting system as in to investigate or as in to tamper? One is hopefully unnecessary but harmless and one is obviously worthy of prison time, in my opinion.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      3 hours ago

      It is a shame that the article doesn’t have those details.

      Oh wait, it does!

      Peters, 68, was convicted by a trial jury in August of seven criminal counts, including attempt to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty, and failure to comply with secretary of state requirements.

      She was accused of using another person’s security badge to allow someone else to gain access to her county’s election system.

      The person who used that badge was affiliated with Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow and a leading proponent of the claim that Trump’s defeat for a second term was due to ballot fraud.

      There is no reason for this kind of access except to tamper, because the system is formally audited by people who don’t have to sneak in through illegal access.

      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Thanks for summing it up for me and no thanks for the hostility! Reminds me of Reddit, so I feel right at home.

        Yep, she should be in prison.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 hours ago

          I’m sick of people trying to pretend like the people trying to interfere with elections would have some kind of non-malicious intent.

          Also I was being snarky, not hostile. Words mean things.

          • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            I’m sick of people jumping down each other’s throats when someone asks about something they don’t know about.

            So I guess we’re both sick of each other. 🖕

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
      12·
      3 hours ago

      She was not authorised to allow access, whatever the reason. You don’t get to break the law just because you think you have a reason.

      Regardless, it was to tamper (or to find a way to tamper, more specifically).