A judge sentenced a former Colorado county clerk, election official and prominent Donald Trump supporter to nine years in prison on Thursday, Oct. 3, for leading a data breach scheme during the 2020 presidential election. A jury found Tina Peters guilty of four felonies, and seven charges in total, in August 2024. She was cleared of three lesser charges.
Prosecutors said Peters stole a county employee’s security badge to help a man associated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell get access to the county’s voter systems to back Lindell’s conspiracies about the 2020 election results.
The stolen data showed no fraud.
Before being sentenced, Peters insisted everything she did was to try to get rid of what she believed was fraud and that she believed it was for the greater good.
At the hearing, Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters she never took her job as clerk seriously.
“These are all active decisions you made that cost our county significantly, but also more importantly cost you greatly,” Barrett said.
Peters’ attorneys said they plan to appeal the sentence.
