- Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
- Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
- She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.
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Allowed access to the voting system as in to investigate or as in to tamper? One is hopefully unnecessary but harmless and one is obviously worthy of prison time, in my opinion.
It is a shame that the article doesn’t have those details.
Oh wait, it does!
There is no reason for this kind of access except to tamper, because the system is formally audited by people who don’t have to sneak in through illegal access.
Thanks for summing it up for me and no thanks for the hostility! Reminds me of Reddit, so I feel right at home.
Yep, she should be in prison.
I’m sick of people trying to pretend like the people trying to interfere with elections would have some kind of non-malicious intent.
Also I was being snarky, not hostile. Words mean things.
I’m sick of people jumping down each other’s throats when someone asks about something they don’t know about.
So I guess we’re both sick of each other. 🖕
Why are you still talking to me? Is it because you’re lying about being sick of people like me and it’s really that you enjoy being rude?
Going to have to figure out how to block people on lemmy now. May as well learn how on day 2, but it’s a bit sooner than I expected.
I’ve never spoken to you in my life
I am now suspecting that you are a russian NPC or a clueless boomer, maybe both. Bless you either way
Unfortunately the answer is usually Russian NPC
I’m surprised you managed to figure out how to make a Lemmy account considering you can’t even tell when more than one person responds to you. And acting all wounded when you didn’t bother to RTFA and someone is kind enough to spoon feed you anyway is very reddit of you.
She was not authorised to allow access, whatever the reason. You don’t get to break the law just because you think you have a reason.
Regardless, it was to tamper (or to find a way to tamper, more specifically).
I’m not on board with the Law = Morality argument and I doubt you are.
Gandhi? Rosa Parks? MLK? Would you tell them they shouldn’t have broken the law just because they think they have a reason?
Get a grip. It’s absolutely crazy to compare Tina Peters to MLK Jr., Rosa Parks, or Gandhi. These people fought against deep systemic injustice, risking their lives for civil rights and freedom. Peters’ actions, spreading lies tied to election denial and abuse of power, don’t come close to that level of sacrifice or historical importance. Trying to equate the two is a huge stretch and undermines the legacy of true leaders who changed the world for the better.
I’m not making the point that this person is as virtuous as any of the three that I named. I’m making the point that Law and Morality are not the same thing. Either you don’t understand that or you do understand it and facing your crummy point earlier is making you upset.
Either way, find someone else to talk to because we’re done here.
What Tina Peters did is clearly immoral. She tampered with voting equipment and spread lies about election fraud, which directly undermines trust in democracy. I don’t care if she thought she was doing the right thing. Breaking laws meant to protect elections is not just wrong, it’s dangerous.
I agree with this comment, but it wasn’t the basis of your earlier comment. You’re accidentally or intentionally moving the goal posts because you want to fight and you want to be right at any cost.
Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.
Your use of the word “you’re” is bad and you should feel bad.
Edit: We all know what your edit was. Own it.
You don’t think she deserves prison? Why?
From what I gathered in the article, she wasn’t allowed access. She stole someone else’s access card to get in. So, worthy of prison time absolutely.
Yeah I’m very much against that but not nearly as against the idea of transparency in voting.
The obvious drawback being it could affect the anonymity of voting, which is an essential cornerstone to healthy democracies.
What the fuck are you talking about with this irrelevant bullshit?
Do you think I’m inclined to answer your question when you ask it like that?