Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years behind bars for voting system data scheme

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8-and-a-half years in prison and six months in the Mesa County Detention Center for a total of nine years incarceration on Thursday.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s office said mail ballots will be sent out sometime in the next week or two. With election season coming up, here are a few things that might help potential voters. According to Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office,

Proposition 131 would change most of Colorado's primaries so candidates from all parties run against each other, with the top four vote-getters advancing to a ranked choice voting general election.

A new poll of voters conducted earlier this week shows a very tight race in Colorado's eighth congressional district between incumbent Representative Yadira Caraveo and challenger State Representative Gabe Evans in Colorado's eighth congressional district.

Peters was convicted for giving an individual affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump confidant, access to the election software she used for her county.

Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters has been sentenced to 9 years behind bars for voting system data scheme

She was the first election official to be charged with a security breach amid unfounded conspiracies that widespread fraud denied President Donald Trump a second term.

Colorado is one of three states with statutes requiring that voters receive a neutral summary and pro/con arguments for every ballot measure.

The former Mesa County clerk was ordered to serve eight and a half years in prison and six months in the county jail.

Independent expenditure committees are pouring money into a handful of competitive Colorado legislative races ahead of November’s election, which will determine the size of Democrats’ majorities in the state House and Senate.