Tina Peters was arrested twice last week. Now she’s running to control Colorado’s elections

Daily Kos Staff

Tuesday February 15, 2022 · 12:00 PM PST

2022/02/15 · 12:00

Mesa County Sheriff's Department via AP, File — Left to right: Tina Peters mugshot, Tina Peters opening her mouth which may have led to the aforementioned mugshot

The embattled Mesa County, Colorado, elections Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, fresh off of being arrested twice in one week, went on Steve Bannon’s media show to announce she is running to become Colorado’s Secretary of State. This comes months after the actual Secretary of State has exposed Peters for serious breaches of election security, which include all the scandalous behaviors one would expect from a criminal trying to rig an election in a bad action movie.

Peters told Bannon’s audience that “Colorado deserves a secretary of state who will stand up to the Biden administration that wants to run our country into the ground with nationalized elections.” If that sentence means nothing to you, don’t fear: You aren’t suffering some kind of medical event. Tina Peters just pulled all of those magnet words off of the GOP’s fascist refrigerator. This comes as news to many—Peters cannot run for reelection as Clerk and Recorder while also running for Secretary of State. But it makes sense, as her reelection campaign for her continued position has been waylaid by breaking laws and stuff.

Peters has been under investigation for her part in allowing a third-party MAGA operative access to Dominion voting machines before a scheduled “trusted build.” Peters allowed Gerald Wood access into areas he had no security clearance for in order to reportedly download files and software from the voting machine. Peters turned off security cameras to hide the fact that she was doing this. Secure passwords to the Colorado election’s system were then leaked onto a third-party blog post that alerted officials to the security breach.

Peters, like every single MAGA-head or GOP operative busted for either breaking the law or doing something that should probably be considered illegal and corrupt, has hoisted herself up on a cross of her own making and, with nails in her mouth and a hammer in her hand, is telling everyone she is being persecuted.

“As the county clerk and reporter, my job was to preserve election records for 25 months and that I did. My job as secretary of state would be to make sure that no other clerk has to go through what the three of us have in Colorado for just doing our job.”

A reminder: So far there has only been one clerk reported to have turned off security cameras that are trained on elections equipment to ensure their fidelity: Tina Peters (of Nazareth?).

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has been busy investigating two more MAGA-sympathetic elections officials who may have broken elections protocols and security in similar ways to Peters. Asked about Peter’s announcement that she wanted to run for Secretary of State, Griswold released this statement:

“Tina Peters is unfit to be Secretary of State and a danger to Colorado elections. Peters compromised voting equipment to try to prove conspiracies, costing Mesa County taxpayers nearly one million dollars. She works with election deniers, spreads lies about elections, was removed from overseeing the 2021 Mesa County election, and is under criminal investigation by a grand jury. Colorado needs a Secretary of State who will uphold the will of the people; not one who embraces conspiracies and risks Coloradans’ right to vote.”

Peters has been housed and flown around by MyPillow pretend-cybercrime investigator, Mike Lindell. During that time she has continued to promote the idea that the 2020 elections were stolen by Joe Biden, while providing zero evidence that such a thing has occurred.

Tina Peters was arrested twice last week. Now she’s running to control Colorado’s elections

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