Peters’ questions about the 2020 election have since yielded the focus of the White House and a flood of questions for Colorado’s governor.
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Mesa County’s former Clerk and Recorder has for months been a subject of national fascination, as well as a source of consternation for Colorado election officials. But it didn’t start out that way.
Tina Peters first made national headlines in the summer of 2021, when the state started looking into the tampering of the county’s voting machines. Almost immediately, the county District Attorney’s office and the FBI began an investigation into the release of information from Mesa County’s Dominion voting election system and the role Peters played in it.
