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The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang and agencies

Republican former election clerk jailed for nine years over voter interference

Tina Peters pictured in Colorado in February 2023.
Tina Peters pictured in Colorado in February 2023. Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP

A local elections official who became a hero to election deniers was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome.

Tina Peters allowed a man affiliated with the pillow salesman and election-lie trafficker Mike Lindell to misuse a security card to access the Mesa county election system.

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