NEW: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R), an election rigging conspiracy theorist, has been ordered to turn over evidence related to a security breach where her office's voting systems passwords were leaked to QAnon figure Ron Watkins. #9NEWS #copolitics
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) says the leak "constitutes a serious breach of voting system security protocols" and has ordered Mesa County to provide chain-of-custody and security information.
Mesa County spokeswoman Stephanie Reecy declined to comment. "Confidence in the election process is paramount to Mesa County. Because this is an active investigation, the Mesa County District Attorney asked that we do not comment until the investigation is
complete," Reecy said.
complete," Reecy said.
Should note much of this was first reported by @OldNewsman and fleshed out by @Timodc here: thebulwark.com/voting-machine…
I asked the Mesa County spokeswoman why the Clerk isn't commenting on the advice of the District Attorney's, whose role is to prosecute crimes, not to give legal advice to other elected officials. Clerk Peters then emailed a separate statement.
"Confidence in the election process is paramount. The citizens of Mesa County have been critical of election integrity. They have brought me their concerns and I have told them I will do everything in my power to protect their vote," Peters said.
UPDATE: 21st Judicial District DA Dan Rubinstein tells me he did not speak to Clerk Peters or anyone in her office about this issue and doesn't know why her office claims otherwise. Rubinstein confirmed he's started a criminal investigation into the leak of the voting passwords.
More info here:
https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1425214073109688325
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