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Tina Peters was a county clerk in Colorado, who was convicted of election irregularities, during the 2020 Presidential election.[1][2] She was charged in 2023. She was convicted in 2024. Although the US President's pardon power applies only to convictions in Federal courts, Donald Trump has tried to pardon Peters.
Peters was accused of turning off the surveillance cameras that monitored the electronic voting machines that had been used to the elections, and then allowed Conan Haley unsupervised access to them.[2] Peters allowed Haley to pretend to be Gerald Woods to have access to the voting machines. Haley was described as a Qanon conspirator.
After her conviction Colorado Newsline called her a "prominent far-right conspiracy theorist".[2]
During the sentencing portion of Peter's trial Gerald Wood's wife denounced Peters for putting her family's safety at risk, because some people did not understand her husband was a victim, and believed he was a fellow conspirator.[2] The Colorado Newsline reported the FBI had investigated whether Woods was a fellow conspirator. They had used a search warrant to search his house, and seize $12-15,000 of computer equipment, which they had yet to return.
Peters was sentenced to 9 years detention.[2] Her judge explained he had not issued a suspended sentence because Peters had shown no remorse, and he believe, given the chance, she would repeat her crimes.
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Trump's attempt to pardon Tina Peters runs into constitutional limits". PBS Newshour via YouTube. 2025-12-29. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
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Sharon Sullivan (2024-10-03). "Tina Peters, former Mesa County clerk, sentenced to 9 years in prison over voting systems breach". Colorado Newsline. Archived from the original on 2024-10-03. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
Peters is a prominent far-right conspiracy theorist who was accused of breaching Mesa County’s elections systems during a 2021 security update in an attempt to prove debunked claims of election fraud. She served one term as clerk between 2019 and 2023, and mounted a long-shot campaign for Colorado secretary of state in 2022.