Mesa Country clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. But President Donald Trump is calling her “a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.” “Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She …
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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here. Members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission expressed alarm Thursday at how much time former Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl spent on vacation while a crisis was erupting in her office: the discovery of 193 missing ballots from …
Read More »MADISON, Wis . (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials declared Thursday that the former clerk of the state’s capital city broke several laws related to not counting nearly 200 absentee ballots in the November presidential election, but they stopped short of recommending criminal charges be brought. The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5-1 to accept a report finding that the former …
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