Tina Peters is accused of allowing Ron Watkins to have information about her. Mesa County, OAN/Youtube
Colorado's secretary-of-state said that a county clerk was accused of "assisting" in security breaches.
Vice reported that Ron Watkins was the one who leaked sensitive election data during the breach.
Watkins, believed to be Q, shared the information via his Telegram channel.
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Vice reports that a pro-Trump Colorado election official is being accused of helping to compromise voting machines and allowing sensitive data to be leaked to a prominent QAnon figure.
Tina Peters, Mesa County Clerk and "Trump Truther", allegedly allowed surveillance cameras to be disabled for as long as two months. According to the media outlet, she allowed someone to steal information which was then leaked by Ron Watkins (QAnon figurehead).
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According to evidence provided by Jenna Griswold, Colorado's Democratic Secretary-of-State Jenna Griswold, Peters's office reportedly instructed officials to shut down the surveillance cameras that were monitoring Mesa County's voting machines at some point in May.
Vice reported that the cameras were not switched on again until late October, breaking the equipment's "chain-of custody". This means the machines can't be used for November's municipal, town and school district elections.
Griswold stated that it was troubling for Colorado to have someone in a trust position, literally trusted by democracy to prevent this kind of situation from happening, during a Thursday press conference. "To be clear, Mesa County Clerk & Recorder permitted a security breach. All evidence to the contrary supports it."
Vice reported that an unknown individual gained access to the machine from Dominion Voting Systems on May 23. Vice reported that the person was able to obtain an image of the machine's hard disk and then again on May 26, as a cybersecurity expert explained to Vice.
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According to media outlets, Dominion employees visited the country on May 25 to perform a highly-regulated "trusted building" upgrade of the voting machines' software.
State law states that only employees from Griswold, Mesa County and Dominion can be present in the room during a "trusted building."
The Associated Press reported that Peters invited an undocumented non-employee to the room during the process. CBS Denver reported that she misled Griswold regarding his employment status.
The unauthorized man was present, but he allegedly illegally filmed footage of the machines being upgraded.
This footage was uploaded to Watkin’s Telegram channel on August 2. Former 8chan administrator and owner, he has fervently supported the QAnon conspiracy theory. Some believe that he and his father could be the infamous Q.
The team at Griswold claims that the footage contained an image that inadvertently linked the leak to Mesa County.
Griswold gave her staff permission to visit Mesa County last week to inspect the election system. However, Peters was not there when they arrived.
Vice reported that Peters was on her route to Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, in South Dakota.
The Colorado Newsline reported that Peters claimed that Griswold's bureau "raised" her county's office while she was speaking at the event.
Vice stated that Watkins showed images to the audience at the South Dakota symposium that appeared to have been taken on May 23rd and 26th from Mesa County machines.
Colorado Newsline reported that Griswold's security breach is being investigated by his office. According to local media, a Dan Rubinstein investigator from the 21st Judicial district Attorney's office is also investigating possible criminal conduct.
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