Trump DOJ Files Statement of Interest in Colorado County Clerk Tina Peters Case

he Trump Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in the case of former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, 69, who was given “an exceptionally lengthy sentence” of nine years in prison last October for her role in an alleged security breach of Mesa County’s elections systems.

In May of 2021, Peters conducted audits of the November 2020 election results in Mesa County, and the April 2021 municipal election in Grand Junction, at the request of her constituents, who had “claimed the results tabulated on Dominion machines were improbable,” her attorney John Case stated in a Court motion, last year...

Calling Griswold “a partisan slob,” Davis pointed out that Colorado’s Sec. of State “allowed voting-machine passwords to remain publicly posted online for 4 months.”

Denver’s 9News reported last fall that the leaked passwords were just the latest in a string of errors made by Griswold’s office “that undercut voter confidence in elections.”

In 2022, the Secretary of State’s office sent out mailers to 30,000 noncitizens inviting them to vote, and used Colorado’s ballot tracking system to send messages to specific Coloradans encouraging them to vote after they had already voted “causing confusion that had to be cleaned up by the County Clerks.”

Griswold was also behind the effort to keep then-presidential nominee  Donald Trump off Colorado’s 2024 primary and general election ballots, arguing he was an “ineligible insurrectionist.”...