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Tina Peters is the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was convicted in 2024 for her role in a security breach of her office’s voting equipment and is serving a nine‑year prison sentence; a federa...
Tina Peters was convicted in 2024 and sentenced to about nine years in prison for a scheme that prosecutors say involved allowing unauthorized access to Mesa County’s Dominion voting systems and copyi...
President Donald J. Trump has granted clemency to more than 1,600 people since returning to the White House in January 2025, a tally that includes mass pardons and numerous individual pardons and comm...
Tina Peters was convicted in 2024 on multiple counts arising from allowing unauthorized access to Mesa County’s Dominion voting machines and related conduct; a state judge sentenced her to nine years ...
Tina Peters was convicted in 2024 of felony charges tied to helping an unauthorized person access Mesa County’s Dominion voting machines and copy their hard drives; she is serving a nine‑year state se...
Prosecutors say former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters organized and enabled a breach of county voting-system equipment in 2021, and a jury convicted her; she was sentenced to nine years in October 2024...
Prosecutors say Tina Peters helped orchestrate a scheme to copy secure Mesa County election equipment and gave sensitive election files to an unauthorized individual in 2021; a state jury convicted he...
Prosecutors say Tina Peters intentionally allowed unauthorized access to Mesa County’s election equipment and preserved election-management-server data that she should not have released; she was indic...
Tina Peters was convicted in Colorado last year and is serving a nine-year state prison sentence for crimes tied to allowing unauthorized access to Mesa County voting equipment; state prosecutors char...
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Prosecutors say Tina Peters orchestrated a scheme that allowed unauthorized people to access Mesa County election equipment, capture images and copy system files during a secure software update, and r...
Available reporting says Tina Peters’ adult son Remington Peters died in a parachuting accident in 2017 while affiliated with the Leap Frogs demonstration team; commentators and local fact-checkers sa...
Reporting consistently describes Tina Peters as a “Gold Star mother” — meaning she is publicly identified as a parent who lost a child who served in the military — and multiple outlets and her own mat...
Tina Peters, former Mesa County clerk, was convicted for directing a 2021 security breach of county election equipment and sentenced to roughly nine years in prison; prosecutors say the scheme aimed t...
Available reporting shows federal officials have sought to move Tina Peters from Colorado custody and the DOJ has inquired about federal custody, but Colorado has kept her in state prison and no sourc...
Tina Peters was convicted by a jury on state charges related to tampering with Mesa County voting equipment and sentenced to roughly nine years in prison; she pleaded not guilty at trial but has mount...
Court records and reporting show several key cooperating witnesses and defendants provided testimony or evidence against former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters; at least one co-defendant, election worke...
Prosecutors say Tina Peters orchestrated a scheme to let outsiders access Mesa County voting equipment and extract voting-machine data as part of a bid to “expose” alleged 2020 fraud — conduct that le...
Available reporting says investigators seized computer equipment and that Tina Peters retained a copy of Mesa County’s 2020 voting-system data as reported by Dominion; prosecutors argued she provided ...
Tina Peters was convicted in August 2024 on seven criminal counts arising from a 2021 election‑security breach and was sentenced to nine years in prison in October 2024; she remains a convicted and in...