Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for tampering with the State’s voting machine in 2020, which damaged her net worth and the country’s election budget.
Before joining Mesa County, Tina Peters completed her degree in holistic nutrition from Clayton College of Natural Health, a correspondence school. However, the college had been classified as an illegal supplier of educational degrees in Texas and listed in illegitimate organizations.
Moreover, Peters sold alternative medicines in association with Nikken through multi-level marketing before being elected to office as a member of the Republican Party in 2018. In her campaign, the officer promised to work for improved service in the division of motor vehicles.
🚨Tina Peters, Gold Star mom and former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, at 69 years old has just been sentenced to 9 years in prison by a corrupt judge for preserving records on the Dominion voting machines before they could delete everything pic.twitter.com/S7GWUerpvo
— Culture War (@CultureWar2020) October 3, 2024
Her time in the position ended quickly when authorities found an emptied ballot box with 574 uncounted ballots from the 2019 elections near the Mesa County election headquarters. Peter later described the incident as human error, but Colorado State issued an investigation.
Likewise, Tina Peters failed to accurately file her fundraising and expenses in the office for nearly three years, making it difficult to predict her net worth. However, many estimated she made $53k per year as part of the County Clerk.
Regardless, her income and reputation have been on a decline since she tampered with voting machines in an attempt to rig the 2020 presidential election against former President Donald J. Trump.
Peters gave Conan Hayes unauthorized access to one of Mesa County’s machines to change the election results, but the attempt failed, putting her in a difficult position.
The Tina Peters scandal has cost Mesa County a significant worth of $1.3 million from taxpayer’s money!
Along with her net worth, Peters’s action has caused a huge financial problem to Mesa County as her case expenses took away most of the budget. The cost included fees to local agencies, the police department, and the state office.
Further, Commissioner Janet Rowland mentioned that it had been a complete and utter waste of tax dollars, as the office had to pay Peters a full-time salary despite her ongoing trials. Peters’ campaign for the office continued in case she was found innocent, but it ultimately wasted the funds.
After Peters violated election ethics, Mesa County replaced all its computers and electronic devices to minimize another system breach. Staff had to count the ballot by hand, and most employees received overtime pay.
The best part of the Tina Peters sentencing was when the prosecution reminded the judge he’d forgotten to sentence her for one of the charges 😫 pic.twitter.com/eyiODI7M2y
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) October 3, 2024
Before authorities took her into custody, Peters lived in Grand Junction, Colorado, with her husband, Thomas Peters. Thomas was a construction company worker, and the couple had two children: a daughter, Cayce, and a son, Remington J., but they had to cope with losing their youngest in a parachute accident in New York.
During the pair’s divorce in 2017, officials valued Peters’ house on Eagle Ridge Drive at $374K, but a quitclaim deed showed he transferred the property for only $1. Critics accused the politician of proceeding with the transfer by fraud.
Following their marriage’s end in 2021, Thomas purchased the property, proving that they didn’t have joint custody in their funds. The property is solely under Thomas’s name, and there is no obligation to transfer it to Peter’s name.
In her election case, the judges now finalized that Peters’s sentence was fair and straight. As one of the County officials added, “Her actions have led to general threats to the lives of people who work in our elections.“
Additional Information
- Tina Peters supports the Republican party and served in the office from 2019 to 2023. After her detention, Bobbie Gross succeeded Peters.
- In 2022, Peters paid $256k to conduct a manual recount of votes cast in the election, but results didn’t change by a considerable margin as she held the votes share of 29%.
- The Colorado Office of Administrative Court fined Peters $15k for violating the Fair Campaign Practice Act on more than three charges.
