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hlthe2b

(102,127 posts)
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 10:01 PM Sep 2021

**NEW** Charges filed against Mesa County (Colorado) deputy clerk

This is not the main case against the elections official, Tina Peters, but the deputy clerk for matters that may or may not be related. The former investigation is ongoing...

https://www.gjsentinel.com/breaking/charges-filed-again-mesa-county-deputy-clerk/article_606a2b1c-0b59-11ec-9c2d-1f0400a0e95d.html


To avoid being arrested and put in jail, Mesa County Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley turned herself in to Mesa County District Court today and was advised on charges of felony burglary and misdemeanor cyber crimes filed against her in relation to a personnel matter and ongoing investigations of her office.

As a result, Knisley, 66, was ordered not to enter the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's Office while state and federal criminal investigations are ongoing into possible felony charges for breaching election security, according to her arrest warrant.

The charges are separate from two criminal investigations against her and Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters by the district attorney's office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.



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**NEW** Charges filed against Mesa County (Colorado) deputy clerk (Original Post) hlthe2b Sep 2021 OP
Thanks, I needed to hear some good news. Kittycatkat Sep 2021 #1
Two Nice Ladies wyn borkins Sep 2021 #2
Rethug criminals, hope they reap the hammer of justice Celerity Sep 2021 #3
I think she's trying to take the fall for Peters, myself (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Sep 2021 #4
Wanna bet she trying to cover up for herself and the nutjob Peters. Thomas Hurt Sep 2021 #5
Oh, it's related FreepFryer Sep 2021 #6
Gee, how did she manage to get Tina Peters' passwords? crickets Sep 2021 #9
It's all pretty strange. But apparently info from the Colorado machines and Tomconroy Sep 2021 #7
Did Lindell run out of money to hide her? LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #8
He's hiding Tina Peters. This is her deputy. hlthe2b Sep 2021 #11
She'll get a $1,500.00 fine and community service... C Moon Sep 2021 #10

wyn borkins

(1,109 posts)
2. Two Nice Ladies
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 10:08 PM
Sep 2021

Last edited Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:47 PM - Edit history (1)

Whom I think may have been just ahead of me and my daughter at the cake walk in the school yard just the other day. Neither one of them was a winner, then OR now...

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
6. Oh, it's related
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 10:30 PM
Sep 2021
"District Attorney Dan Rubinstein has been in contact with defense counsel for Ms. Knisley and has expressed his concern that Ms. Knisley continues to have contact with employees of the Clerk and Recorder's Office in a manner that is intimidating to them, despite the pending investigation and her leave," the affidavit says.

The arrest warrant was issued after County Administrator Pete Baier informed Knisley that she was being placed on administrative leave pending investigations into "numerous" workplace harassment complaints, an order Knisley ignored, the affidavit and other court documents show.

Her access badge had been suspended along with her computer passwords. Still, Knisley was discovered inside secure areas of the office by Baier and the head of the county's Human Resources Department, who also observed that Knisley was trying to print something using Peters' computer passwords.

crickets

(25,952 posts)
9. Gee, how did she manage to get Tina Peters' passwords?
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 11:41 PM
Sep 2021

I just can't imagine.

Better question: why are/were Tina Peters' passwords still functioning? I'm wondering if they're also no longer valid and Knisley got caught by trying to use them. Tch.

 

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts)
7. It's all pretty strange. But apparently info from the Colorado machines and
Wed Sep 1, 2021, 10:52 PM
Sep 2021

Also from the Antrim County MI machines (where conspiracy theorists were granted access) was passed around at that Lindell symposium. Probably all voting machines in the country can now be hacked.

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