Tina Peters did not tamper with election equipment.
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Badlands MediaAug 11, 2026
The claim that Tina Peters did not tamper with election equipment is contradicted by the record: a Colorado jury convicted her on seven counts tied to unauthorized access to Mesa County's voting machines, and the appeals panel upheld those convictions in April 2026 while ordering only resentencing.
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… I mean, you don't really have to wonder. The opposition to Tina Peters is, um, Tina Peters is a threat to the story we've told about elections, so we need to use Tina Peters to tell a different story about elections, and the story they use Tina Peters to tell is that election denialism is dangerous and results in election tampering, and that she never tampered with an election. She never even tampered with election equipment. That was all storytelling that was meant to enrage the public, to get them to, to, uh, to get, to get the public, and it was, I, I would probably argue that it was a majority of uhm people in Colorado, in the state of Colorado, across the spectrum …
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Contradicts. Reuters reports that a Colorado appeals panel overturned Peters' nine-year sentence but upheld her conviction on all seven counts, after she was convicted of tampering with voting machines.[1]
Contradicts. BBC reports that Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines after helping an unauthorized individual access voting equipment and election records in Mesa County.[2]
Contradicts. NBC reports the appeals court upheld Peters' conviction on charges including official misconduct in connection with a security breach of Mesa County's voting system, while throwing out only her sentence.[3]
Contradicts. CBS reports that Secretary of State Jena Griswold alleges Peters gave an unauthorized individual access to secure voting equipment and allowed him to copy proprietary software.[4]
Context. Mesa County prosecutors had earlier found no evidence of tampering in the 2020 election, but the criminal case concerned unauthorized access to county equipment, which the jury and appeals court addressed separately.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 1, 2 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 1Appeals panel orders resentencing of ex‑Colorado clerk over voting machinesreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Tina Peters: Ex-county clerk jailed for tampering with voting ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: contradicts
- 3Colorado court throws out election denier Tina Peters' 9- ...nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
- 4Trump's focused on voter fraud. Yet he worked to free a ... - CBS Newscbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
- 5Prosecutors call Tina Peters' claims of illegal manipulation of 2020 ...gazette.com · not rated · cited for: context
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