Tina Peters' lawyers try to convince Colorado court to overturn conviction
ABC News • • general
Key Points:
- Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is appealing her 2024 conviction for orchestrating a data breach of Mesa County's election equipment, with her lawyers seeking to overturn the ruling and citing President Donald Trump's pardon, which does not apply to state crimes.
- Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of crimes related to election fraud claims following the 2020 presidential election, and her lawyers argue she acted to preserve election records under federal law.
- Prosecutors maintain Peters unlawfully allowed a third party to copy election system data, compromising proprietary software, while Peters and her defense claim the security breach posed no real risk and was unnecessary since backups existed.
- The case has drawn national attention from election conspiracy supporters, including Trump
