Tina Peters, a Colorado County official who whipped up conspiracy theories and was later accused of allegedly violating her own voting machines, lost her main candidacy to become secretary of state.
And then she did exactly what you would expect: she denied losing, called for deception, and vowed to keep fighting.
“It’s not over,” Peters reportedly told supporters at her party as she was 15 points behind actual winner Pam Anderson, a former Jefferson County employee.
“I am sorry we believed in the system again.
Peters’ loss will be a blow to her election-denying colleagues, including well-known supporter Mike Lindell, who cling to the baseless notion that the 2020 election was stolen by Donald Trump.
Now they have a new cause.
“The biggest scam !!! We caught them !!! ” Lindell, the tycoon of MyPillow, frantically sent an SMS to The Daily Beast late Tuesday night, targeting the Peters race. “We caught them in their deception !!! Prison for domination! ”
“How the votes came (in real time). This is impossible !!!!! “- he continued.
The break comes three months after Peters was indicted by a grand jury on 10 counts of wrongdoing and crimes stemming from her role in disrupting election machines in Mesa after the 2020 election.
She and a deputy are accused of plotting to turn off security cameras and allow an unauthorized person to gain access to the machines, information released by conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins.
The indictment limits the tumultuous 10-month period in which Peters was arrested for preventing police officers who were carrying out a search warrant on her iPad from appearing at a far-right event where a spokesman advocated “hangings” for those conducting elections. fraud. , and often joins Lindell’s live broadcast website, Frank Speech. At one point, Peters hid in a “safe house” of Lindell.
Disputes swirled around Peters even before Trump’s loss in 2020.
It is alleged that in 2019, her office left 570 ballots uncounted and allowed others to escape the ballot box. Patti Insho, a former Mesa County employee, was hired to help Peters get organized, but Peters fired her within two months. A Peters employee then filed a lawsuit against Inscho, accusing him of crime.
“Tina didn’t want to fight facts,” Insho told The Daily Beast at the time. “She wanted to hurt people. She did and said many things about me that were not true. It’s damaging my reputation and it’s hard to resist. “
Anderson, the primary winner, who will be the Republican on the ballot on election day, has publicly announced that there is no evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
In a statement after the victory, she said that if elected as a senior state election official, she would “support local election officials by relying on evidence-based elections, law enforcement, training and funding resources.”
“I will be a fair judge for Colorado to continue to improve both voter access and securing and improving our elections. These efforts will not be driven by party politics or campaign talks, but are focused on politics and restoring confidence in our elections by removing the rhetoric and outright lies that provoke echo-chamber debates.
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