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Hours after being convicted of tampering with voting machines in Colorado in the name of Donald Trump, former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters griped that the outcome was a “sad day for our nation and the world” while continuing to spout false election-related conspiracy theories about “vote-flipping software that is basically in Serbia.”

Peters was found guilty Monday on seven of ten charges after she granted unauthorized individuals access to county voting machines in order to transfer data to Trump allies. Peters faces up to 22 years in prison.

Later in the day, Peters responded to her newfound status as a felon by posting Bible quotes and spreading baseless claims about election fraud.

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 138 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like a lot of these people are unprepared for the civil war they claim to want

When you live your whole life in a cushy environment with more competent people than you making sure that the lights stay on and the food keeps coming, it’s easy to have this weird fantasy that you are God’s chosen person and you can wander around believing and doing whatever you want. Just looking at this woman’s face, though, I feel like she would be the first to abandon her convictions and say yes judge I’ll do whatever you want once the cell door swings closed for real. Maybe I am wrong but that is the feeling I get from looking at her.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago

You’re probably right. But the MAGAsphere is going to wring a few more clicks out of her before she’s discarded. And she can’t wait to help them do it.

[–] Cuttlefish1111@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

These people have never killed a chicken let alone a person

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 101 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is more for the article linked in the body

Tina Peters’ team claimed it was “physically impossible” for Mesa County clerks to upload certain batches of 2020 election ballots so quickly. The cameras showed otherwise.

Don't we all have "that one person" at the office? lol The one who's like "it's physically impossible" to not be terrible at your job while evidence shows everyone else not being terrible at their jobs?

[–] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago

“Look, Karen, just because it takes you 5 minutes to remember how to check your emails doesn’t mean that it takes all of us that long.”

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah and its gotten much worse after covid.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They are sowing seeds of chaos before the election at every opportunity. A reasonable judge, seeing no remorse can give a longer sentence.

Edit: Sowing! GArr!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

They are sowing seeds of chaos before the election at every opportunity.

That's an understatement! They are -- in their own words -- "recruiting an army of 100,000" delusional election-fraud muppets just like this bitch.

[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago

Oh Carp! Posting precaffienated.

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She'll never want for anything if she isn't imprisoned. She will be a conservative darling doing talk circuits.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

She will be a conservative darling doing talk circuits.

I don't get the impression that there's a long shelf life for those folks. "Joe the Plumber" rose to conservative fame even without committing a felony. After the right fell in love with him for his 15 minutes, he had a "record deal", co-wrote a book, and was also hired as a junior reporter for the right wing Pajamas Media (whatever that is) and 4 years later he's working at a Jeep factory in Toledo source

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget that he wasn't even a fuckin plumber

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After high school, Wurzelbacher enlisted in the United States Air Force, and chose plumbing (Air Force Specialty Code 3E451, or Utility Systems Specialist) as his area of training.[4] He was stationed in Alaska and North Dakota. Wurzelbacher left the Air Force in 1996 and worked as a plumber's assistant, but then switched careers and started working for the telecommunications company Global Crossing.

He was trained in plumbing and had some limited experience.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But not a licensed plumber, which requires being licensed so he was calling himself something he wasn't allowed to do by law.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

ehhh he plumbed

ya plumb one toilet and ya can’t be a plumber

but ya fuck ONE HORSE and now yer a…

[–] aniki@lemmings.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's only working on feeding the worms at the moment.

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

On the plus side, he's not working at a Jeep factory anymore

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

"Basically" in Serbia? What does that even mean? Is the server on the border line with Bulgaria, but over 50% is on the Serbian side?

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pretty lousy software considering the congressional makeup.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They have all kinds of conspiracy theories for how Democrats stole the election but still let Republicans take the house and close to half of the Senate.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 2 years ago

oh yeah how the ole stupid, incompetent, cowardly democrats are going to dominate the world with their 6d chess manuevers that will let them rule with an iron fist.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

The people she's talking to are accustomed to rationalizing Trump's statements which range from purposely ambiguous to utter nonsense. None of her audience is going to demand clarity or focus of her.

The way it was likely meant to be perceived was, they don't look like us, talk like us, or think like us.

It's racism, nationalism, and regular old stupidly basically.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's actually hooked up to the Iron Gate hydro plant, so it's half Romanian.

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago

That's going to work well at sentencing.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The software is in Serbia? Lol

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The "Serbia" thing was news to me, too. It turns out Dominion has an office in Serbia. That's it. That's the sliver of factual basis for the new conspiracy theory.

https://www.startribune.com/mike-lindell-and-the-other-voting-machine-conspiracy-theorists-are-still-at-it/600382431

Leaf posted a Google Drive with thousands of pages of internal Dominion documents that had been provided as discovery in Byrne’s lawsuit. Some showed that top officials at Dominion had communicated with employees in one of its back offices in Belgrade, Serbia, near the time of the election — an otherwise innocuous fact that, according to Leaf, indicated that “Serbian military criminals” were “running our elections.”

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would love to watch this bint attempt to point to Serbia on a map

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She probably can't even point out the capital of Mexico

[–] evatronic@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

"Tiajuana? No, that's too easy. Ensenada!"

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That makes it one of the more credible conspiracy theories republiQans fall for.

Most of them are just “The Bible says margarine is alien currency - lets hate the gays” sort of batshittery

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The most insidious theories are the ones with a sliver of truth behind them. Because the ones pushing them can say "Do YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH" and lazy people will find that one or two points are true and punt on checking the rest.

Like how these nutters went from "the company outsourced some of their engineering to Eastern Europe" to "the Serbian government is directly writing all their software".

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, I’m all for a plausible theory. But the Qanon stuff just went koo koo bananapants from the get-go. I think initially as a joke, but then later it just was all a sad joke.

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

The brain worm strikes again.

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Hope she gets the full 22 years

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

That thing behind her eyes needs an exorcism

[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

No remorse. Throw away the key your honor.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But Serbia is a Russian ally.

Why would Russia stop the party of letting Russia do whatever it wants?

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is crazy that you have electronic voting machines in the US, you're just waiting for it to be hacked aren't you?

Pencil and paper folks, much more secure 👍

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah, but not by much. I remember reports of garbage bags full of D ballots being found in the dumpsters at voting sites in rural areas during the Bush II years. I don't ever remember any investigations about it.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yeah you still ~~not~~ need a robust auditing system with multiple layers of oversight, and oh, ya know, a federal electoral commission that directly oversees every level.

Also the fact voting rules are different per state for a federal election is insane.

Being able to throw out votes should be harder in physical form, because you actually need to transport physical things.

Hack a voting machine? Much more silent.

Edit: typos

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've watched 3rd graders hack pencil and paper voting.

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[–] Numenor@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I saw a photo of her from an article yesterday and felt a bit bad because I'd immediately thought - she has active bitch face.

I told myself I shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but thankfully, her actions corroborate my first impressions.

Unopened book correctly judged.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

sad day for our nation 😂😂 and the world!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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