Tina Peters walks down the hallway at the Mesa County Justice Center Monday after closing arguments on the final day of her criminal trial. The former Mesa County clerk was found guilty on 7 of 10 charges.

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was found guilty in August on seven charges related to a 2020 election security breach.

Caleb Thornton, Colorado Secretary of State's Office’s legal policy and rulemaking manager, stated during testimony, “The BIOS passwords basically protect like at the most basic level, these voting system components.

Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday.

A Colorado judge has been getting multiple threats after he sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to prison for orchestrating a security breach to further a conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.

Courthouse staff in Mesa County have received multiple threats following last week’s sentencing of former Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters to nearly nine years in prison for her role in an elections systems security breach.

A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.