And then he did exactly what you would expect: He denied losing, cried out for fraud and vowed to keep fighting. “It’s not over,” Peters reportedly told supporters at her watch party as she was 15 points behind the real winner, Pam Anderson, a former Jefferson County employee. “I’m sorry we believed in the system once again.” The loss of Peters will be a blow to her colleagues who deny the election, including prominent supporter Mike Lindell, who cling to the unfounded notion that the 2020 election was stolen by Donald Trump. Now they have a new cause. “The biggest scam !!! We caught them !!! ” Lindell, the MyPillow tycoon, sent a frantic message to the Daily Beast late Tuesday night, referring to Peters’ fight. “We caught them in their scam !!! Prison for Dominion! » “How did the votes come in (in real time). This is impossible !!!!! “he continued. The conviction comes three months after Peters was indicted by a major court on 10 counts of misdemeanors and felonies stemming from her role in rigging Mesa polling machines after the 2020 election. She and a deputy are accused of plotting to shut down security cameras and allow an unauthorized person to have access to the machines – information leaked by conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins. The indictment spanned a tumultuous 10-month period that led to Peter being arrested for obstructing police officers on a search warrant for her iPad, she appeared at a far-right rally where a speaker supported “hangings” for those who commit electoral fraud. , and you often join Lindell’s live streaming site, Frank Speech. At one point, Peters hid in a “safe house” of Lindell. The controversy revolved around Peters even before Trump’s defeat in 2020. In 2019, her office reportedly dropped 570 ballots and let others escape a ballot box. Patti Inscho, a former Mesa County Clerk employee, was hired to help Peters get organized – but Peters fired her within two months. A Peters employee then sued Inscho, accusing him of delinquency. “Tina did not want to fight events,” Inso told The Daily Beast at the time. “He wanted to hurt people. He did and said many things about me that are untrue. It has damaged my reputation and it is difficult to resist. “ Anderson, the first winner to be the Republican on the ballot on election day, has publicly stated that there is no evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In a statement after the victory, she said that if the state’s top election official is elected, “she will support local election officials by relying on evidence-based elections, the rule of law, training and funding.” “I will be the fair referee for Colorado to continue to improve both voter access and to secure and strengthen our election. “These efforts will not be driven by partisan politics or pre-election debates, but will focus on politics and rebuilding confidence in our elections, removing the rhetoric and outright lies that drive debates in the auditorium.”
