Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, falsely claimed Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
  • Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.

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    • JollyG@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      longer version that includes defense and prosecution arguments as well has her bananas defense of her conduct.

      Starting at 42:31 and going for about 2 minutes is a really stark example of how conspiracy theorists just do not care about the truth and will ignore evidence no matter how obvious.

      Starting at around 1:45:12 and going on for about 2 minutes is a really good example of what not to do if you are speaking to a judge at your own sentencing hearing.

      • modifier@lemmy.ca
        5·
        2 months ago

        Oh I’m not ashamed at all. Inject the schadenfreude directly into my bloodstream.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          The value of these people going away for multiple years cannot be stressed enough. The fact that so many are still walking around free only gives others the indication that they can try it again (and again) until they succeed in destroying our country’s democracy.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      This, in the same week the (female) judge struck down Georgia’s six-week abortion ban:

      When a fetus growing inside a woman reaches viability, when society can assume care and responsibility for that separate life, then – and only then – may society intervene. An arbitrary six-week ban on (post-embryonic cardiac activity pregnancy) terminations is inconsistent with these rights and the proper balance that a viability rule establishes between a woman’s rights of liberty and privacy and society’s interest in protecting and caring for unborn infants

      I bet that one is getting death threats from the unhinged, as well.