No bond for Tina Peters
DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals denied Tina Peters’ request to release her on bond because her plea was filed more than a year too late. Peters is Mesa County’s former elections clerk, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence after she turned off surveillance cameras monitoring voting machines, allowed a QAnon conspiracy proponent to access the room where the voting machines were stored and allowed him to make copies of the machine’s hard drive before and after an update.
Brief / February 19, 2026
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