NEW: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R) is ordered to stop using voting systems that may have been breached, with data ending up in the hands of QAnon conspiracy theorists and MyPillow guy Mike Lindell’s “cyber guys.” #9News#copolitics
Colorado Secretary of State @JenaGriswold (D) says the Mesa County Clerk's office directed county staff to turn off video surveillance of voting equipment prior to a May 25 work session where the breach/leak is alleged to have occured.
@JenaGriswold The Secretary of State's office says Mesa County Clerk Peters had a non-employee at the May 25 voting equipment work session, in violation of state law, while telling the SOS' office that the person was an employee.
@JenaGriswold Clerk Peters, after being informed of the SOS investigation into the voting system breach, left Colorado to attend MyPillow guy Mike Lindell's election rigging conference where she was celebrated as a hero and panelists poured over the data obtained from Mesa County.
Clerk Peters promised to speak at Lindell's conference again today after failing to provide evidence of election rigging on Tuesday.
Yesterday, after a panelist read a warning from his lawyer that they were examining the contents of a stolen hard drive from Mesa County, Clerk Peters took the stage to say nothing had been removed from her office. A loud duck quack sound played and Peters left the stage.
The SOS' office says several voting systems were not sealed immediately after the May 25 work session, so the chain of custody for the machines cannot be determined and Mesa County is banned from using them.
We've asked the @cologop, Mesa County Commissioners, and Mesa County Republican Party whether Clerk Peters should resign. We'll update our reporting with their responses when received.
NEW: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R) spoke today at MyPillow guy Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium. She did not present evidence of election rigging. Her only apparent reference to the breach/leak of Mesa Co voting system data was, "I'm just putting it out there." #9NEWS
Lindell hailed Peters as a hero. Lindell, Peters and others have winked and nodded at why she's a hero to election rigging conspiracy theorists. Sec of State Jena Griswold (D) says Peters' office disabled security video and allowed an unauthorized person access to voting systems.
Peters has appeared on stage alongside Sherronna Bishop, GOP Rep. @laurenboebert's former campaign manager. Bishop said today that Peters' "can't go back right now." She didn't elaborate.
UPDATE: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters (R) abruptly took the stage at MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell's election rigging conference today after a panelist expressed concern that the Mesa County files being publicly reviewed were from a stolen hard drive. #9NEWS#copolitics
"No hard drives that belonged to our equipment were taken off the premises," Peters said. A duck sound quacked loudly in the room. The source of the duck sound was not clear.
Conference emcee Dr Douglas Frank stepped in. "Is there anything else you'd like to say to us?," Frank said. "Because we're not allowed legally to allow you to answer Q&A right now. I just got the notice." Peters then left the stage.
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NEW: My Pillow guy Mike Lindell's election fraud conference is featuring a parade of Colorado conservatives. FEC United's Joe Oltmann appeared to repeat his claim he listened in on an Antifa conference call and heard a Dominion Voting Systems employee conspiring with Antifa.
Oltmann is being sued by Eric Coomer, the Coloradan and Dominion employee that Oltmann cited as the Antifa co-conspirator. 9news.com/article/news/l…
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NEW: Ron Watkins claims that images of Mesa County's voting system "mainframe" were made "publicly available." Republican Clerk Tina Peters' office is under criminal investigation for the voting system breach. #9NEWS#copolitics
QAnon is a collection of conspiracy theories around the idea that fmr Pres Trump was going to round up + execute his opponents, specifically Democrats who eat babies. Prior to her election, GOP @RepBoebert, who reps Mesa Co, expressed support for QAnon before distancing herself.
Watkins' presentation about Mesa County at Pillow Guy Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium, which seeks to prove President Trump's false election rigging claims, is disjointed and difficult to follow. Tech issues are making it harder to understand.
NEW: Mesa County's GOP Clerk Tina Peters is appearing at MyPillow founder Mike Lindell's Cyber Symposium promoting President Trump's false election rigging claims. Smith's office is under criminal investigation for a voting systems breach that gave passwords to a QAnon figure.
"They came and raided her office on the way here," Lindell yelled. "This is the hill to stand on!" Lindell accused Democratic Secretary of State of committing crimes in investigating Mesa County's voting systems breach.
Clerk Peters is accompanied on stage by Sheronna Bishop, a GOP activist & former campaign manager for Rep. @laurenboebert. Bishop accused Secretary of State Griswold of allowing voting system passwords to get out. "Under this communist regime, we are all suffering," Bishop said.