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Tina Peters, Colorado Election managers in the western part of the state were charged with tampering with elections this year and were banned from judges overseeing votes in their home counties.
However, Peters never gives in, repeating the false allegations of former President Donald Trump that the 2020 presidential election is fraudulent. She is seeking a Republican Secretary of State in the primary elections on Tuesday. This is her position to make her responsible for the state's election system.
Peters rejects the legitimacy of the 2020 election and is looking for an office that will have a significant impact on future elections, including fierce battle states such as Arizona. He is one of dozens of Republican candidates in the midterm elections. , Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada.
According to a tracker managed by StatesUnitedAction, a nonprofit advocate, 23 refusals are running in 17 states, usually for the Secretary of State, usually the state's highest-ranking civil servant. ..
After the 2020 elections, after Trump and his allies failed to change results in some major states, the race was once unobtrusive and with strong attention. Collected a huge sum of funding.
Candidate rhetoric warns of good government advocates that the 2024 presidential election could pose a constitutional crisis if certain states refuse to prove the results. I was allowed to.
"I think people need to be very worried," said Jessica Marsden, a lawyer to protect democracy, a nonprofit organization. .. "Some of these candidates who have leveraged power are very likely to participate in similar plans to change the outcome of future elections."
Peters Campaign Did not respond to the request for comment.
Peters is part of the Republican candidate slate of the Secretary of State, the United States Secretary of State Union, who shares a similar message about election fraud.
This group was founded last week by former Nevada State Assembly member Jim Marchant, who was appointed Secretary of State of the Republican Party of Nevada. The merchant, who did not respond to the request for comment, said he did not prove that Democratic President Joe Biden had won in Nevada in 2020.
The coalition is partly by Mike Flynn, a former national security adviser to Trump, known for spreading the theory of election conspiracy, a project financially backed by the United States. An organization led by.
According to election funding records, Flynn's group is also spending $ 100,000 on ads shortly before attacking Peters' major Republican rival Pamela Anderson. This is about the same amount Anderson has raised so far.
Indictment
A Colorado grand jury allows outsiders to enter the election office in Mesa County, where they act as clerk and copy the hard drive of the voting system. He charged Peters in March. ..
Peters denied her misconduct and accused Colorado's Democratic Secretary of State, Jenagris Wald, of targeting her for her political reasons.
Her indictment has made Peters several conservative heroes. She was a frequent featured guest on forums promoting election falsehoods and blamed Republican opponents.
The compromised data that caused Peters' criminal charges has been cited by protrump activists in presentations to local government officials across the country as evidence of unfounded conspiracy theories, including fraudulent voting machines. ..
"She is a clerk and a very patriotic clerk," said Mark Cook, a technical consultant who worked for her pillow tycoon and conspiracy theorist Michael Lindell. Cook spoke with a committee in Lyon County, Nevada, on April 21, during a presentation in which Peters tampered with her election equipment as a noble act.
Griswold, running for reelection, also chairs the Association of Democratic State Commissioners.
"It's very dangerous and is used to cause violence and set the stage for stealing American elections," she said in an interview, she lied about 2020. Mentioned. Peters' false rhetoric was "at least reckless," Reuters said. "Election and civil servants in these positions must overcome and support political conflicts," said Anderson, a former county secretary. (Report by Joseph Ax, additional report by Linda So, Jason Szep, Alexandra Ulmer, edited by Ross Colvin and Daniel Wallis)