From what I've seen, she is guilty of attempting to independently investigate voting machines. Laws be laws and all that, and she might've broken them, but if she broke the law to verify election results, she's being sentenced based on questioning the election results. It seems beyond healthy to scrutinize and question election results in a democracy. I can't make sense of the claim that questioning ballot counting and ballot access is an attempt to undermine democracy. Being able to prove election results are accurate is really important and I can't trust anyone that calls people distrusting them treason.
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84 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 4 Oct 2024
Hillary called Trump an illegitimate President.
How is questioning 2016 different from 2020?
In her trial, the jury found Peters guilty of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant
, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with Colorado's Secretary of State. She was acquitted of an additional count of criminal impersonation, a charge of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and an identity theft charge.
Peters had pleaded not guilty to all counts in 2022. The charges stemmed from Peters allowing a county security card to be misused to give a man access to the Mesa County election system and for deceiving other officials about that man's identity. That man was affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell. Lindell is a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
Before he handed down his sentence, Judge Barrett told Peters that she never took her job as clerk seriously. He also admonished her for her refusal to admit wrongdoing or show remorse for her actions.
"You're as defiant as a defendant that this court has ever seen," said Judge Barrett. "You're as privileged as they come."
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