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Candidate Tina Peters speaks during a debate for the state leadership position Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in Hudson, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting data scheme

By Mead Gruver - Associated Press

FILE - Candidate Tina Peters speaks during a debate for the state leadership position Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in Hudson, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters to be sentenced for voting data scheme

By Mead Gruver - Associated Press

FILE - Tina Peters, former Mesa County, Colo., clerk, listens during her trial, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Grand Junction, Colo. (Scott Crabtree/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

Colorado clerk who became hero to election conspiracists wanted to preserve data, lawyer says

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

Candidate for the Colorado Republican Party chair position Tina Peters attends a debate sponsored by the Republican Women of Weld, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in Hudson, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Election-denying former Colorado clerk avoids jail

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Colorado Republican Party chair candidate Erik Aadland speaks during a debate for the state Republican Party leadership position Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in a pizza restaurant in Hudson, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP posts

By Nicholas Riccardi and Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press

Tina Peters speaks to supporters at her election watch party in Sedalia, Colo., on June 28, 2022. A judge on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, threw out a lawsuit challenging a primary election recount lost by Peters who alleged voting fraud in her failed bid to become the state's top election official. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Colorado clerk pleads not guilty in election system breach

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

Tina Peters speaks to supporters at her election watch party in Sedalia, Colo., June 28, 2022. Colorado's secretary of state says a statewide recount has confirmed that indicted County Clerk Peters who alleged voting fraud lost her primary election last month. Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, that Mesa County Clerk Peters picked up 13 more votes in the recount of the votes cast election to determine who the state's next Republican candidate for secretary of state. Peters ended up with about 29% of the votes cast. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)

Recount confirms that indicted Colorado clerk lost election

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

FILE - Arizona Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake acknowledges the crowd at a rally prior to her speaking before former President Donald Trump spoke on Jan. 15, 2022, in Florence, Ariz. A growing number of Republican candidates are claiming, or even previewing, that voter fraud is the only reason for their loss in a GOP primary. The latest to make the claim, which is ripped from former President Donald Trump's 2020 playbook, is Lake, the Trump-endorsed candidate in the Arizona Republican primary for governor. Critics say the claims, always presented without evidence, further undermine confidence in elections. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Parroting Trump, GOP primary losers cast doubt on elections

By Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press

In this photo released Wednesday, July 13, 2022, by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office is Sandra Brown. Colorado officials say the former elections manager, Brown, who worked for a county clerk indicted on charges of tampering with voting equipment, has been arrested on allegations that she was part of the alleged scheme. Brown served as elections manager for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. (Mesa County Sheriff's Office via AP)

3rd arrest made in alleged Colorado election security breach

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

FILE - Mesa County, Colo., clerk Tina Peters, talks on the west steps of the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in downtown Denver. Peters announced plans earlier this year to run for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State on the podcast of former President Donald Trump's adviser, Steve Bannon. In recent months, she has been issuing various reports -- discredited by officials and experts -- claiming vulnerabilities in voting equipment used widely in Colorado and across the country. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado rejects secretary of state candidate who pushed vote tampering claims

By Christina A. Cassidy and Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

FILE - Mesa County, Colo., clerk Tina Peters, talks on the west steps of the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in downtown Denver. Prosecutors in a western Colorado county say they found no evidence of tampering in the 2020 presidential election as alleged by the clerk who has become a prominent voice among those promoting former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election. The Mesa County District Attorney’s Office presented its findings to county commissioners on Thursday, May 19, 2022 after investigating claims Peters, who is under indictment on accusations of providing unauthorized access to county voting equipment, a breach that led to a public release of sensitive information. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Prosecutors debunk Colorado clerk’s 2020 election claims

By Christina A. Cassidy and Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

Mesa County, Colo., clerk Tina Peters, talks to well-wishers at a rally staged to voice concerns about free and fair elections on the west steps of the State Capitol Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in downtown Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado secretary of state hopeful barred from election role

By Nicholas Riccardi - Associated Press

Mesa County, Colo., clerk Tina Peters speaks during a truth and justice rally on Dec. 1, 2021, outside the old Mesa County Courthouse in Grand Junction, Colo. A grand jury in Colorado has indicted Peters, a county election clerk who has sowed doubt about the 2020 presidential election, alleging she was part of a “deceptive scheme” to breach voting system technology that is used across the country. (McKenzie Lange /The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)

Colorado elections clerk indicted in voting system breach

By Christina A. Cassidy and James Anderson - Associated Press

In this March 3, 2020 photo, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, center, reads the results from the first round of ballots for the 2020 presidential primary elections at the Mesa County election office in Grand Junction, Colo. The county's election equipment has been decertified and will have to be replaced following a security breach allegedly aided by Peters. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP)

Grand jury to investigate election-equipment tampering in Colorado

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A multiagency task force executed search warrants Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, at four locations in western Colorado amid an ongoing investigation into allegations that Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was involved in a security breach of elections equipment earlier this year. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, File)

‘I was terrified’: FBI raids Colorado homes tied to election probe

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FILE - In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters reads an update on the election in Grand Junction, Colo. The rural Colorado county clerk who has been out of state and allegedly unresponsive since several investigations were opened into an elections-related security breach told co-workers she's been working remotely. Mesa County Clerk Peters has not been seen in Colorado since Secretary of State Jena Griswold opened an investigation into a security breach of the county's voting equipment. (McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, File)

Colorado elections clerk under investigation says she’s still working

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Uncounted 2019 ballots found in western Colorado county

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