Chuck DarwinTwelve Mesa County jurors found #Tina #Peters guilty of four felonies on Monday after a lengthy criminal trial, marking yet another conviction tied to 🔸post-2020 election conspiracy theories. 🔸
Peters faced a total of ♦️10 criminal charges♦️ related to her role in helping a man gain 💥unauthorized access to voting equipment💥 during a secure software update in May 2021.
The county’s voting machine’s passwords and copies of its hard drive were later posted online by people trying to undermine the validity of the election system.
Peters was found guilty of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation.
She was also convicted of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failure to comply with an order from the Secretary of State, all misdemeanors.
The jury acquitted Peters on three counts — criminal impersonation, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and identity theft.
Some of the facts in the case have never been disputed.
Peters admits that in May 2021, she used the identity of a Fruita man named Gerald Wood to give a different man
— Conan Hayes, a self-described data expert from California
— access to county voting equipment,
both to copy its hard drive and a few days later to attend a secure update of the machine’s software.
Hayes is a retired surfer with ties to "My Pillow Guy" Lindell and his campaign of spreading falsehoods about the country’s election system.
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