**Breaking** Mesa County's Tina Peters can't participate in November election, CO judge rules

[hlthe2b]

Mesa County’s Tina Peters can’t participate in November election, judge rules

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/13/tina-peters-mesa-county-elections-griswold/

Former Republican secretary of state will oversee county elections this year

Mesa County's top election administrator, the embattled Republican Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, cannot be involved in the administration of her county's November election, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Mesa County’s top election administrator, the embattled Republican Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, cannot be involved in the administration of her county’s November election, a judge ruled Wednesday.

District Court Judge Valerie J. Robison sided with the Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who in late August filed a lawsuit seeking to block Peters and Deputy Clerk and Recorder Belinda Knisley from handling the next election.

That lawsuit “met the burden of showing that Peters and Knisley have committed a breach and neglect of duty and other wrongful acts. As such, Peters and Knisley are unable or unwilling to appropriately perform the duties of the Mesa County Designated Election Official,” the judge wrote in a 22-page ruling.

This means that former Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams will oversee Mesa County elections this year. He was appointed by Griswold, his 2018 election opponent.

Peters, who has prominently and baselessly claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, has been under scrutiny for allegedly letting an unauthorized man access a secure area at the county election office on May 25, during an update to Dominion Voting software. Passwords from that update later circulated online.

Peters has spent much of her time since then out of state, though she has since returned to Colorado. Fellow Republican elected officials in Mesa County blasted her as negligent and inaccessible during her absence.

Criminal investigations at the local, state and federal levels are underway.

[underpants]

1. wrongful acts

Well I learned something today

[hlthe2b]

2. This is goood news. Courts are still holding--against this BS.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I'm lovin' it: "breach and neglect of duty and other wrongful acts."

Could describe a lot of malfeasance. And why allow such to perform official duties, or put miscreants in office or back into office. Catch my drift?

[monkeyman1]

4. investigation word should tell ya something ? duh !

[COL Mustard]

5. FAKE NEWS!!! COMMIE PLOT!!!!

Et cetera, yada yada yada.

I'm glad there are starting to be SOME consequences for TFG's acolytes.

[h2ebits]

6. Here is the news release from the Secretary of State's office

Too bad that the Denver Post tried to politicize this issue with the Democrat/Republican designations. I expect that Peters and Knisley will eventually get criminal charges of some sort thrown at them and land in jail. Colorado has an excellent election system and it appears that Peters was in cahoots with Mike Lindell to speak at his South Dakota rally to "prove" that there was voter fraud. We make every effort--regardless of affiliation--to conduct fair and non-partisan elections; including an overwhelming yes vote by all of us to have an independent commission determine allocation of votes by jurisdiction to help eliminate gerrymandering. As a former Secretary of State, Wayne Williams is the perfect person with experience to run the upcoming election in Mesa County.

NEWS RELEASE:

colorado secretary of state
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October 13, 2021


Mesa County Court Judge Rules in Favor of Removing Peters as Designated Election Official

DENVER, Colo– Today, a Mesa County Court Judge ruled in favor of removing Tina Peters as the Designated Election Official (DEO) and has granted the Secretary of State’s requests that Wayne Williams be appointed as the DEO and Sheila Reiner be appointed as the election supervisor for Mesa County.

A Designated Election Official is a person responsible for running elections for a local government, like a municipality or a county. They make determinations regarding elections issues for their municipality or county. The Court’s decision legally bars Peters from serving as DEO, after she allowed breaches to election security, disregarded election rules and orders of the Secretary of State, and risked the integrity of Mesa county elections.

“Clerk Peters seriously compromised the security of Mesa County’s voting system. The Court’s decision today bars Peters from further threatening the integrity of Mesa’s elections and ensures Mesa County residents have the secure and accessible election they deserve,” said Secretary Jena Griswold. “As Secretary of State, I will continue to provide the support and oversight needed to ensure the integrity of Colorado’s elections.”

Although the Secretary of State’s Office can require supervision of a county clerk’s conduct, this legal action was necessary to ensure the removal of a sitting county clerk from acting as the Designated Election Official.

[hlthe2b]

7. Thanks for posting this

[h2ebits]

9. You're welcome. . . .

[stopdiggin]

10. excellent. lets keep the focus on the fact

that 99.9% of the elections (and the people overseeing them) are conscientious good faith efforts that strive mightily to deliver a fair and honest result to the electorate. Allowing the narrative to veer away from that fundamental democratic assurance and trust - is a serious and harmful mistake.

This county clerk is a nutjob - and the system is in the process of weeding her out. Well done.

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[Wingus Dingus]

8. Well, you wouldn't give a suspected bank robber the keys to the safe

while he's out on bail and waiting for his trial.

[MrModerate]

11. Lock her up! n/t

[lagomorph777]

12. Very good news.

Federal bench appointments matter. Need to crank up the judge mill!

[Scarlet Begalas]

13. FL 2000

Reminds me of Katherine Harris, the Secy of State in FL during the 2000 election.

[RVN VET71]

14. My late and sainted mother had a name for people like Katherine Harris

I can’t use it here for fear of being suspended or put in the bad-boy penalty box. But it was a reference to any woman who sought to project, umm, pseudo-Playmate qualities in public places. It was a 3 word phrase, the first 2 of which were “Susan Sloppy . . .” and the last of which was a reference to the female upper body area. Not exactly “teats”. The word like that but with a shorter vowel between the t’s.

Mom was earthy, honest, and didn’t truck with fools and hypocrites, god bless her.

Harris it was who found time to engage in canoodling with Republican Representative Renzi (AZ?) on CSPAN back in 2004 while seated beside him in a nearly empty House Chamber, nudging and what looked at one point like tickling him and laughing like a hooker on coke. (You can look it up.) She also helped give Florida to Bush with the tragic results of which we are all too painfully aware.

Without Harris’s dubious machinations in the 2000 presidential election, Gore would likely have carried the state of Florida and won the election. Without Bush, there would have been no invasion (and destruction) of Iraq nor any of the apocalyptic events issuing from that horrible debacle.

So at least part of the mess we are in today as a nation (and a species) can be traced back to the willful act of an honest to god Republican bimbo to “fix” an election.