JUST IN: For the second year in a row, a judge has ruled that GOP Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters and Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley are barred from overseeing an election — this time, through the November 2022 election.
For the second year in a row, a judge has ruled that GOP Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters and Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley are barred from overseeing an election — this time, through the November 2022 election.
Peters, an election denier who is seeking the Republican nomination for secretary of state, is also facing multiple investigations surrounding allegations of an election equipment security breach and campaign finance violations, including 10 criminal counts from. She received the most votes for the party’s candidacy at the Republican assembly and convention as did other candidates for offices who spread baseless theories about a stolen 2020 election.
Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat who is running for re-election, sued Peters in January after the clerk refused to sign documents with new security protocols that would have restricted her authority and required her to repudiate a statement she made about Dominion Voting Systems machines — a subject of Peters and other election conspiracy theorists unsubstantiated claims of widespread of fraud.
“Based on the circumstances of this case … the Court determines that the Petitioners have met the burden of showing that Peters and Knisley have committed a neglect of duty and are unable to perform the duties of the Mesa County Designated Election Official,” wrote Judge Valerie Robison in her order released Tuesday.
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