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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Sat Aug 14, 2021, 12:49 PM Aug 2021

Elections Official Accused of Helping Leak Data to QAnon Leader

A Colorado election official who's a fervent supporter of Trump's Big Lie is now being accused of compromising her county’s voting machines and allowing information to be leaked to one of QAnon’s biggest promoters, who shared it to the world this week.

In May, Tina Peters, county clerk in Mesa, Colorado, allegedly ordered county officials to turn off surveillance cameras that were monitoring election equipment.

Peters then allowed someone to steal sensitive election data, as well as film a Dominion Voting Systems Corp. employee updating the election system software, according to Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold.

When Griswold found out about the leak earlier this week, she sent officials to Peters’ office on Tuesday to find out what, exactly, was going on. Peters was nowhere to be found, but hours later she turned up on stage at MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s bogus Cyber Symposium conference, where QAnon promoter and 8chan administrator Ron Watkins shared the very data stolen from Mesa County with the entire world.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88nbza/elections-official-accused-of-helping-leak-data-to-qanon-leader

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Elections Official Accused of Helping Leak Data to QAnon Leader (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2021 OP
you mean EX county clerk? samnsara Aug 2021 #1
Too many county jerks have way too much power and control over elections. Ziggysmom Aug 2021 #2
It won't make a headline in the MSM. gab13by13 Aug 2021 #3
Meet the Press had a story, unfortunately with absurd framing EleanorR Aug 2021 #4
Yeah, I guess when someone robs a bank the cops "feud" with Wingus Dingus Aug 2021 #5

EleanorR

(2,393 posts)
4. Meet the Press had a story, unfortunately with absurd framing
Sat Aug 14, 2021, 01:05 PM
Aug 2021

Apparently everything needs to be framed as some sort of sensationalized cage match.


Wingus Dingus

(8,054 posts)
5. Yeah, I guess when someone robs a bank the cops "feud" with
Sat Aug 14, 2021, 01:11 PM
Aug 2021

robbers, the judge "feuds" with the defendants, etc.

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