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(13,851 posts)
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:27 AM Aug 2021

MAGA Election Clerk Tina Peters Accused of Not Counting Ballots in Local Races

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mesa-countys-maga-loving-election-clerk-tina-peters-accused-of-not-counting-ballots-in-local-race

MAGA Election Clerk Tina Peters Accused of Not Counting Ballots in Local Races

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Kelly Weill
Reporter
Updated Aug. 29, 2021 9:26AM ET
Published Aug. 29, 2021 5:00AM ET

Seated onstage at the most-hyped election conspiracy event of the year, the clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, Tina Peters, described herself as a crusader for election security.

“I’ve looked at it objectively,” Peters said of supposed issues in election data during her speech at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s “Cyber Symposium” this month. “There’s some discrepancies there that I cannot deny, and I tell people, ‘I cannot unsee some of these things.’ If I’m going to be honest with the people of Mesa County and Colorado and all of you, I cannot unsee some of these things.”

But at home in Mesa County, some current and former officials have a different recollection of Peters’ tenure overseeing elections.

During Peters’ first year as clerk, in 2019, her office was blamed for leaving more than 570 uncounted ballots in a box, long past an election. Less than a year later, one of her office’s drop boxes leaked ballots, sending some floating in the summer breeze. Now Peters has gone underground, reportedly hiding in a safe house provided by Lindell, after she allegedly participated in a breach of Mesa County voting machine data this year. That data soon wound up on conspiracy websites, making Peters a folk hero among the MAGA set and the subject of an FBI investigation.

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Chainfire

(17,587 posts)
1. We need to issue all of these crusaders with mask, tights and capes
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:34 AM
Aug 2021

so that we can instantly recognize them for what they are.

These folks are all the product of our national sickness. Covid is not as big a threat as the cult of ignorance and hate.

gohuskies

(1,156 posts)
2. She is one very crooked election fraudster
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:38 AM
Aug 2021

All elections in Mesa County during her tenure are suspect and need to be investigated thoroughly. And Lindell needs to be charged as an accessory.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
3. Multiply this by the thousands across the entire country, and you can understand why
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:38 AM
Aug 2021

even the most prodigious GOTV efforts might not be enough overcome what the cultists are doing.

gab13by13

(21,379 posts)
6. MSM propaganda is at an all time high,
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:57 AM
Aug 2021

Instead of saying that Lindell is aiding and abetting it's stated as if Lindell is helping the poor lady out.

Heck, everyone today, except myself, calls MF45's fence a wall.

CrispyQ

(36,492 posts)
5. Q-anon assholes are going to infiltrate all positions of authority or governance of our elections.
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:54 AM
Aug 2021

I know our SOS is on top of this issue, but certainly some federal election laws were violated during Peters term as clerk?

...her office was blamed for leaving more than 570 uncounted ballots in a box, long past an election. Less than a year later, one of her office’s drop boxes leaked ballots, sending some floating in the summer breeze.


Hello, DOJ?

gab13by13

(21,379 posts)
7. Not "going to"
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 11:59 AM
Aug 2021

we already have the courts full of Nazi judges, meanwhile I don't think that president Biden has submitted 12 judges yet.

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