Pro-Trump Mesa County clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines

Tina Peters. Photo: Mesa County Sheriff's Office

Tina Peters (previously), a county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, was found guilty Monday on seven charges related to her attempts to hack into Colorado's election system after the 2020 election. She claims she was trying to prove a conspiracy to deprive Donald Trump of victory, so jurors didn't have to think long or hard about it: it took them only four hours to crank through her rap sheet. — Read the rest

Trump co-defenant, abandoned by him, pleads guilty to interfering with Georgia voting machines

Trump won't help the co-defendents who went all-in to help him, even at the point where helping them would seemingly improve his own chances of getting out from under the Georgia election interference charges. Scott Hall, one of 18 facing charges with the ex-president, has pleaded guilty to tampering with electronic voting machines in a deal that requires he testify against the bigger fish. — Read the rest

Colorado voting machines banned after conspiracy theorist county clerk let unauthorized person in during upgrades

The county clerk of Mesa in Colorado, Tina Peters, "could be in legal trouble" after allowing an unauthorized person into a secure facility during an "upgrade" of the county's voting machines. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold reported that this unauthorized person then released the passwords for the underlying voting machine software online. — Read the rest

US voting machine vendors and officials insist that it's OK to build wireless networking into election systems

I've been fighting with voting machine vendors since Bush v Gore, when companies like Diebold brazenly sought to subvert the Supreme Court's order to standardize a secure design for US voting machines, going so far as to send out thousands of fraudulent copyright notices in a failed attempt to silence whistleblowers who'd reported defects in their systems.