I'm quoting Dan Rubinstein, the Mesa County district attorney who won the conviction of Tina Peters. Peters was sentenced to 9 years in prison for "tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against President Trump."
At a sentencing hearing in October, Judge Matthew D. Barrett scolded Ms. Peters from the bench, telling her that he was imposing a stiff penalty on her because she had repeatedly advanced false claims about Mr. Trump’s defeat, and that, in so doing, she had become a celebrity among those who denied that he lost the race.
“You are no hero. You abused your position, and you are a charlatan,” Judge Barrett said, adding, “You cannot help but lie as easy as you breathe.”
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whistleblower tina peters made copies of the anomalous data she found in the election system and refused to destroy the 2020 data from her county’s voting machines.
tampering my ass
So many anomalies. They say "Trust Me".
…you know, the Get Trump community. The one what used government money to fund riots and journolism and lawfare, what created an insurrection and had 60 Minutes cover it up. The one that produced a bioweapon to lock down the world so volunteers in California and other states could send in votes for people in Wisconsin and Arizona and Georgia. You know, the ones who rigged the rig-able voting machines 60 Minutes told us all about? That community….
he was imposing a stiff penalty on her because she had repeatedly advanced false claims about Mr. Trump’s defeat, and that, in so doing, she had become a celebrity among those who denied that he lost the race.
It sounds like, from NYT reports(!), that she was not punished for tampering with machines to influence any election. She was punished for speaking out about a previous election.
"Judge Barrett said, adding, “You cannot help but lie as easy as you breathe.”
Well, he sounds dispassionate …
The judge's comments stuck out to me at the time but the election suspense soon overshadowed it. Scolding her for "lying" while excluding the evidence she wanted to use to prove her truthfulness is something that needs further investigation. His remarks cloud the debate over whether she was tampering or whistleblowing and my recollection is she was never afforded a neutral venue to present her whistleblower claims.
The judge willingly took part in retaliation against a whistleblower and he admitted it in that scolding rant.
This PBS article seems fair and balanced.
Colorado, of course, is the state that tried to remove Donald Trump from the ballet. And they were crushed 9-0 by the Supreme Court.
I would think highly partisan prosecutions warrant some DOJ questions.
In most organizations the Leader sets the guardrails and tone. Why is this not the same in the Judicial Branch? Why do we have to wait for certain cases to be run up to SCOTUS to be corrected, for instance, instead of CJ Roberts reminding judges that they are required to follow objective court processes, or be sanctioned in some way?
In the corporate world, we had to watch annual training videos regarding IP protection, sexual harassment and what-not. Some infractions could be cause for termination. For some, we had to pass a short quiz afterwards to prove we understood the topic. Our Judges should have annual reminders like these….
Nine years! That’s a very stiff sentence!
What I'm getting out of this is that the judge gave her a stiffer sentence because of her political views. And the tampering she was accused of was trying to preserve evidence.
Gonna post this again concerning voting machines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
No one could prove that Trump actually won in 2020, but if anyone tried.... there was a "community" that insisted on a 9-year sentence for thinking that maybe it could be done.
Did any of the Russian hoaxers get a nine year sentence? The Dirty 51? Comey? Vindmen? The people who spied on Carter Page?
‘What “community”?’ Mesa County Colorado, a Republican stronghold:
2024 election: Trump 55,839, Harris 33,573
2020 election: Trump 56,894, Biden 31,536
2016 election: Trump, 49,779, Clinton 21,729
2012 election: Romney 47,472, Obama 23,846
Rubinstein, a Republican, got more votes than Trump in those elections, 68,058 in 2024.
"Did any of the Russian hoaxers get a nine year sentence? The Dirty 51? Comey? Vindmen? The people who spied on Carter Page?"
Coming attractions, I hope.
In case nobody watches the video I linked to, which is likely, trusting an electronic voting machine is like going into a voting booth where a person is waiting and you whisper your voting choices to them, and they promise to faithfully record them cause you can trust them.
“We have a lot of pride in this community but our reputation has taken a hit,” Davis said. “Her behavior has made this county a national laughingstock.”
I’d say a laughingstock for excessive sentences. Davis needs to wind his neck in.
It was the community of Our Democracy.
Who audited/validated the software? The discussion concerning the computerization of anything centers on what the output must look like.
Winkleheimer nails it.
God, how I hate judges scolding, pontificsting, moralizing, virtue signaling, etc. when sentencing.
…marks another example of President Trump’s Justice Department intervening to aid supporters or go after foes…
…after the prior Biden administration Justice Dept persecuted its foes?
Tina Peters is 69. This is a death sentence.
"Tina Peters is 69. This is a death sentence."
If there really is a moral arc to the universe then in the future she will be celebrated as a brave, principled hero who stood up for what is right.
I've been in IT for 4+ decades, have a degree in Information Security, have done security work and participated in numerous audits. I can only think of one reason why someone would insist on destroying data related to the 2020 election. The harsh sentences were to scare people away from questioning the election.
"Ann Althouse said...
No one could prove that Trump actually won in 2020, but if anyone tried.... there was a "community" that insisted on a 9-year sentence for thinking that maybe it could be done."
Might be the most darkly humorous comment ever on this blog.
The same people who oppose auditing the federal government. Can they abort the baby, sequester her "burden" of evidence, and have her, too? With the redistribution of federal bennies curtailed, this may be a hard row for them to hoe.
Maybe the NYT can investigate this judge regarding his other criminal sentences. I’m especially interested in any manslaughter sentences.
The punishment doesn’t fit the crime.
I hope all the conservative dumbos are finally waking up to the fact that the liberal/left is willing to kill us and put us in jail for long prison sentences when we do something they don't like.
Kill us sounds rather hysterical but I suggest you look into the case of Ashli babbitt. Lt bryd murdered her, and not only didn't get convicted, he got a medal from Nancy Pelosi and cheers explicit and implict from the liberal/left.
Now, this insane case. She didn't "tamper" with the voting machine to throw an election like the Democrats, she did it to prove their was voter fraud. but the leftwing/liberal laughed and smirked as he sentenced her to 9 fucking years in jail. People who killed other people and committed manslaughter have gotten less.!
THis is just another judicial abuse by a partisan judge. People need to understand the liberal/leftists appointed to bench have no intention of judging fairly, being objective, and being non-partisan. They are idealogues in robes. The rest of non-lawyers, are going to have to restrict their power. Otherwise, you'll get more of this insanity.
https://x.com/1983Level3/status/1896680728257282331
#NoRecords #NoAudits #NoProblems
Don't ask. Don't tell policy.
If she was convicted for tampering with the machines, it means they could be tampered with, which the Democrats, and apparently this judge, say can't happen, so she was convicted of a crime that cannot be...
Colorado? Nine years? Seriously? Anybody who believes this was not political should review the judge’s sentencing of real criminals. Perish forbid that anyone should try to find evidence of election fraud in Blue America. Democrats are generally despicable, but nothing is more despicable than their perversion of the courts.
Gloves off Republican prosecutors and Judges. Hold every political operative in or out of government accountable for lies or half truths about elections.
Judge Barrett won a 2022 retention vote in his stalwart Republican county, 40,381 yes to 19,077 no.
Is he a liberal or is he a “hanging” judge? The judicial performance commission who evaluated him in 2022 says, “on occasion Judge Barrett can be perceived as both pro-prosecution and as unduly harsh toward some defendants.”
Peters must have committed a terrible crime. The DA should be putting the crime front and center. Without that, this looks like sentencing the political opposition to the gulag.
There is nothing you could do in Chicago that would get you nine years, you can rape and kill children and get out on recognizance. Murder gets 3 to 5.
Yah. The 21st century version of American liberal-democracy has about run its course I'm thinking. In America's one-party polities the jig is up. If "they" (IYKYK)have the votes then we'll... Duck fou loser. Jail & lawsuits. Get with the program or else. And there's no remedy for this from elections, lawsuits, proposed reforms. None that I see.
Do judges have to go to asshole school before appointment?
Cotton Mather and his buddy on the bench punish a Trumpian witch for the crime of heresy. Our secular left is right up there with the Salem Witch Trials.
“What I'm getting out of this is that the judge gave her a stiffer sentence because of her political views. And the tampering she was accused of was trying to preserve evidence.”
Keep in mind that there is maybe an 80% chance that the judge is a Democrat. In CO, the governor essentially appoints them, and then they are up for periodic retention, every maybe 5 years or so. And for much of the last 30-40 years, the Governors have mostly been Dems. When I graduated from Law School, in 1990, I ended up with two CO District Court judges (their wives were in my mother’s hiking group) in a rainstorm. Both advised me not to practice law, but the younger one later was interested in my choice of patent law. It was at a 1st JD Bar Assn meeting, where young attorneys were treating him as a god, and he ignored them completely to talk about patents. In any case, both were Democrats, in a county that, at the time, was fairly heavily Republican. Because their judgeships came up open when a Dem was in the Governor’s Mansion. Mesa County is strongly Republican (last time it voted for a D Presidential candidates was for Humphrey and LBJ), so the Dem Governor no doubt picked one of the few Dem attorneys there for that judgeship. (Note - Mesa County is in the 21st JD, centered in Grand Junction. It’s one of the very few JDs containing just one county).
“Judge Barrett won a 2022 retention vote in his stalwart Republican county, 40,381 yes to 19,077 no.”
It’s very hard for a judge to lose a retention vote. Remember one female judge in Denver (2nd JD) who was retained despite being a divorce court judge who sided somewhere in the high nineties percent got the woman in a divorce. Politics aside, Mesa county residents are going to greatly prefer a “hanging judge”.
Democrats: "It is not possible for partisan election officials to tamper with the electronic voting machines!"
Also Democrats: "We are giving you a nine year sentence for tampering with the electronic voting machines!"
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