A hard lesson was learned this week for someone who took her mistrust of voting machines to the extreme and got busted for tampering with them.
Tina Peters is learning that it doesn’t matter what one’s intentions are when they break the law.
The 68-year-old former election official was convicted by a jury Monday on seven out of 10 charges against her.
Now she faces a sentence that could put her in prison for the rest of her life.
From the Colorado Sun:
She faces up to six years in prison on each of her top three felony convictions, and up to 18 months for conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation. Each of her three misdemeanor convictions carries up to 6 months in jail.
Her life now depends on the mercy of a judge to sentence her to probation, during which we would expect to see lengthy appeals.
Peak Politics has refused to use the pejorative term “election denier” to describe Peters that’s used by the bias denying establishment media to condemn her and other conservatives who don’t trust Democrat campaign and election tactics beyond the ballot box.
After all, the Democrat Party does have a history of manipulating elections that goes back to the days of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in New York, to the outright cheating and vote buying by the Chicago machine of old and long dead politicians in Louisiana and other southern states.
Present day political tricks isn’t illegal, like convincing judges to hold polls open longer in key swing states or harvesting ballots from nursing homes, and now for the first time in Colorado, from prisons.
The case of Tina Peters is really the tragedy of a fledgling election official who believed the rumors of foreign intervention and thought herself a hero who could prove it.
She did not.
Instead she held tightly to the notion that the end justifies the means and it was okay to break the law.
It is not.
Her sentencing date is set for Oct. 3.