Pro-Trump clerk convicted of election tampering goes on show a day later to promote same false claims - The Independent
Tina Peters, who helped steal voters’ data in Colorado, was convicted on seven felony counts related to election tampering
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A former pro-Trump county clerk pushed conspiracies about voting machine tampering - just one day after being criminally convicted of the same thing.
Tina Peters, who worked in Mesa County was convicted of seven out of 10 criminal charges on Monday, including three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failing to comply with the secretary of state.
The jury acquitted her of one felony count of identity theft and two felony counts of criminal impersonation. Prosecutors told jurors that the woman had used a security badge to access the election system without the owner’s consent.
Even after her conviction, Peters refused to back down from her claims over “vote flipping software.”
Speaking on Steve Bannon’s War Room she vowed to appeal her guilty verdict, saying: “We’re going to continue to fight this in the law.
“And in the meantime, until they either kill me or put me in prison, I’m going to keep speaking out about the injustice, about what’s going on in...
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