Colorado Appeals Court Orders Resentencing for Tina Peters

A Colorado appeals court ruled on Thursday that Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of breaching her county's election system, must be resentenced after the original judge improperly considered her protected speech in determining her punishment.

Peters, 70, is serving a nine-year prison term following her 2024 conviction on multiple state felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from actions in 2021. As clerk in Mesa County, located in western Colorado, she allowed an unauthorized computer expert, an associate of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, to access and copy data from the Dominion Voting Systems server during a routine software update. To facilitate the entry, Peters used the security badge of a local man she falsely claimed to have hired. Images and videos of confidential voting system passwords from the copied data later appeared on social media and a conservative website, raising concerns about election security.

Prosecutors argued that Peters' actions violated her duties and risked compromising the integrity of the voting process. She was convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, as well as one count each of conspiracy to commit...