An investigation into potential election fraud claims concluded human error — not a malicious actor — was the cause of anomalies in Mesa County’s vote tabulation system.

Mesa County’s District Attorney Dan Rubinstein ordered the investigation into a report made by supporters of Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, based on their analysis of images of the county’s Dominion Voting Systems hard drives.

Election fraud conspiracy theorists have released three reports purporting to find evidence of misdeeds in the hard drive data, which Peters allowed an unauthorized person to copy from her office’s machines last year. Rubinstein looked into the third report because he said it was the only one to allege criminal conduct, in this case “potentially unauthorized and illegal manipulation of tabulated vote data during the 2020 General Election and 2021 Grand Junction Municipal Election.”

However, in his presentation to Mesa County Commissioners Thursday, Rubinstein, a Republican, said his investigation found no evidence that the vote counts in either election were incomplete or improper, and that system anomalies during both elections were due to human error.

“We have found extensive evidence that the conclusions in Report 3 are false. Finally, and most significantly, this investigation uncovered no evidence that would indicated(sic) outside interference with the election,” his report states.

Rubinstein said he began the investigation prior to the grand jury’s March indictment of Peters...

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