Peters, Tina
Tina Peters Loses the G.O.P. Primary for Colorado Secretary of State
Tina Peters, a county clerk who has been charged with seven felonies related to a scheme to surreptitiously copy sensitive voting data, lost her bid for the Republican nomination for Colorado secretary of state on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. She was defeated by Pam Anderson, a longtime local election official who served as […]
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The Election Conspiracy Theories Driving Tina Peters to Run in Colorado
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Just six weeks before the 2020 presidential election — game day for vote-counting bureaucrats — Tina Peters was so proud of her operation at the Mesa County clerk’s office that she invited a film crew in to show it off. There’s no chance of mishap here, she boasted. “The Russians can’t […]
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A man who threatened Colorado’s secretary of state on Instagram faces two years in prison.
A Nebraska man pleaded guilty on Thursday to threatening Colorado’s secretary of state on Instagram last year, the first conviction resulting from the work of a Justice Department task force focused on combating the intimidation of election officials. Federal prosecutors said Travis Ford, 42, of Lincoln, Neb., would face up to two years in prison […]
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How Influential Election Deniers Have Fueled a Fight to Control Elections
Key figures in the effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election have thrown their weight behind a slate of Republican candidates for secretary of state across the country, injecting specious theories about voting machines, foreign hacking and voter fraud into campaigns that will determine who controls elections in several battleground states. The America First slate […]
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A Crusade to Challenge the 2020 Election, Blessed by Church Leaders
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The 11 a.m. service at Church for All Nations, a large nondenominational evangelical church in Colorado’s second-largest city, began as such services usually do. The congregation of young families and older couples swayed and sang along to live music. Mark Cowart, the church’s senior pastor, delivered an update on a church […]
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