Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 security breach in the elections office she was supposed to oversee. Peters will spend the next six weeks to six months in the Mesa County Detention Facility before being transferred to the Colorado

With her pleas of leniency denied, former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years for her role in a data breach scheme linked to the 2020 presidential election. “I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could.