Colorado court orders resentencing for Tina Peters, election clerk backed by Trump
A Colorado appeals court on Thursday ruled that Tina Peters, a former elections clerk who was the first local official convicted over efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election, should be resentenced.
Peters, who served as a clerk in Mesa County, was sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted on seven of the 10 counts she faced. Prosecutors said she sneaked in a man associated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a staunch Trump ally, to make a copy of the county’s voter systems, with the aim of exposing alleged fraud.
Judges on the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court wrongly weighed Peters’s continued promotion of 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories in deciding her sentence.