Grand Junction, Colorado (CNN)Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who has become Colorado's most prominent election denier and faces a series of legal battles after years of efforts to undermine the state's mail-in voting system, is seeking the Republican nomination in Tuesday's primary to become secretary of state.
But in the county on Colorado's Western Slope where she is barred by a district judge from performing her election-oversight duties, many voters -- including some unaffiliated voters who typically back Democrats but had voted in this year's Republican primary because of Peters' presence on the ballot -- said they want to stop her.
"Yes, there was voter fraud. She caused it," said Daria Kent, a 24-year-old teacher and unaffiliated voter in Grand Junction.
Peters, who was indicted earlier this year on 10 counts related to voting machine tampering allegations, is the best-known Republican in the race to take on Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold in November. Peters has pleaded not guilty.
If she wins Tuesday, Peters would become the latest in a line of election deniers nominated by Republicans for roles that would position them, if they win this fall, to take over their states' election machinery in time for the 2024 presidential race.
Peters is facing Pam Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk and former head of Colorado's county clerks association, who has defended the integrity of the state's elections and is running as an effective technocrat, as well...
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