Several hundred people gathered at the state capitol Tuesday for a rally in support of embattled Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, who has been indicted on ten counts related to her efforts to try to uncover what she claims was fraud in the 2020 election.
Four Republican state lawmakers spoke at the event, which was headlined by Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow who has become a leading purveyor nationally of false claims about election security.
“I came to Colorado today because you have here in Colorado the key to the whole nation,” he told the crowd, “because you had a great county clerk, Tina Peters, (who) did her job.”
Peters is accused of helping an unauthorized person make images of her county’s voting machine hard drives and take pictures of passwords last year during an annual system update. The information was later leaked online, causing the state to decertify Mesa County’s machines and a judge to ban Peters from overseeing the 2021 election.
“Everybody has a part to play in this. Everyone has a calling. You are born for such a time as this,” Peters told the crowd to loud cheers.
“They want you to shut up. They want you to sit down. They want to pat your little head and say, ‘nothing to see here, move along everybody.’ And we're too smart for that. Aren't we?”
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