Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years behind bars for voting system data scheme

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years in prison and six months in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday.

Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, falsely claimed Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.

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Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years behind bars for voting system data scheme

She was the first election official to be charged with a security breach amid unfounded conspiracies that widespread fraud denied President Donald Trump a second term.

Colorado is one of three states with statutes requiring that voters receive a neutral summary and pro/con arguments for every ballot measure.

The Republican county clerk was convicted for giving a person affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, an ally of former President Trump, access to election software.

The former Mesa County clerk was ordered to serve eight and a half years in prison and six months in the county jail.