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Bruce Golding

Colorado Judge Targeted By Threats After Sentencing Election-Denying Former Official For Vote System Breach

Presidential-election denier former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters reacts glumly to early election primary returns in 2022 in her losing race to be Colorado's secretary of state. Last week she was sentenced to nine years in prison for allowing illegal access to the local voting system. (Credit: Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

A Colorado judge was the target of threats after sentencing a magnetic-mattress-loving former county official to nine years behind bars for giving a fellow 2020 election denier access to the local voting system.

Security was beefed up Friday at the Mesa County Justice Center in Grand Junction over the threats directed at Judge Matthew Barrett and courthouse staffers, the Associated Press reported.

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