Tina Peters, Trump’s election conspirator, is sentenced to nine years in prison

Tina Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado who pushed the false conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to voter fraud, was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for crimes related to a violation of the voting system in her county sentenced.

Peters was immediately taken into custody after Judge Matthew Barrett denied her attorney’s request for release.

“I have no doubt you would do it again if you could,” Barrett said in scathing remarks before condemning the former Mesa County employee.

“You are as defiant a defendant as this court has ever seen,” the judge said.

Peters, who had applied for a suspended sentence, was convicted by a jury in August of seven offenses including attempting to influence a public official, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, dereliction of duty and failing to comply with Secretary of State’s requirements.

She was accused of using another person’s security ID to give another person access to her county’s voting system.

The person using this badge was associated with Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow and a leading proponent of the claim that Trump’s defeat for a second term was due to voter fraud.

Peters had falsely accused Dominion Voting Systems, which formed Mesa County’s election system, of being involved in the alleged plot against Trump.

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