One-Time Hero and Former Colorado Clerk, Tina Peters Convicted in Computer Breach

A former Colorado election clerk, Tina Peters, has just been the first official charged with a security breach following an investigation into the 2020 presidential election. As wild conspiracy theories swirled around the internet for the past four years, some answers have finally been found.

Peters is accused of using someone else’s security badge to give an expert associated with the My Pillow chief executive, Mike Lindell, unfettered access to the Mesa County election system.

The prosecutors in the case say that Peters sought fame and believed she could have become closer to RNC figureheads.

Part of the breach that Peters was a part of allowed outside concerns to force election workers to use their access and knowledge to launch an attack from within.

Ultimately, the Colorado-based clerk was also found not guilty of identity theft, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, and one count of criminal impersonation.

In the courtroom, Peters stood next to her legal team at the defense table as the verdict was read aloud in the quiet room.

Upon reflection of her guilty verdict and knowing that she will be sentenced to jail time, she took to social media platform X to share some similar views.

The Colorado Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, who helped launch the first investigation into Peters, said that the clerk will now face the consequences for compromising her own election equipment “trying to prove Trump’s Big Lie.”

In the closing arguments at the trial, one of the prosecutors, Janet Drake, stated that the former clerk allowed a man who was posing as a county employee to take photos of the election system’s hard drive before and after a software update in May of 2021.

When representing the federal or state government in matters of an election, it is the job of a clerk or official to be impartial in terms of the outcome of the election.

The defense that Peters’s lawyers argued for her was that she was attempting to access voting system records to preserve true election results. However, because Peters felt so strongly about one candidate winning, it is assumed that she had less than honorable intentions.

At this point, Peters is likely to receive jail time for her involvement in the manipulation of election results and allowing outside parties access to official ballots and voter systems.