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.
“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?
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.
It’s actually hooked up to the Iron Gate hydro plant, so it’s half Romanian.
It is basically in Serbia but once in a while Putin takes it to Moscow to play tetris on it
judge takes down notes for sentencing
The brain worm strikes again.
The software is in Serbia? Lol
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.
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.”
Would love to watch this bint attempt to point to Serbia on a map
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
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”.
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.
Hope she gets the full 22 years
That thing behind her eyes needs an exorcism
No remorse. Throw away the key your honor.
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 👍
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.
Yeah you still
notneed 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
I’ve watched 3rd graders hack pencil and paper voting.
🤦♂️ here’s a great Tom Scott video explaining why pencil and paper is better: https://youtu.be/LkH2r-sNjQs
I’m not saying that paper ballots aren’t more secure, but there wasn’t as much attention to being given to the questionable elections that got Bush elected. And yes, I do remember the “dimpled chads” in Florida. What I don’t remember was much coverage of the Brooks Brothers riot.
Sounds like a failure in the election procedure. I agree the fact this incident isn’t widely known (I’m not in the US, so I’m taking you’re word for it), is very troubling, and it’s no wonder trust in elections in the US is so low. Republicans wouldn’t be able to claim fraud if the system was entirely standardised across all electorates, and properly overseen. I note, there are other countries where the only election disputes are over the fairness of the voting system itself, and not if there is fraud (Australia, which is where I’m from).
These people you mention should be in prison. If they’re not, then as a country you’re basically asking for election distrust.
My initial point is that while Republicans who claim election fraud are likely wrong (seeing as, you only need to cheat when you’re unpopular, like the Republicans are), as a country, if you stick to your electronic voting, and non-standardised elections, you’re basically asking for voting fraud and distrust in the system.
I find way too many people online defending the voting machines, simply because their team won.
I feel entitled to comment on this as a foreigner, because I live in a vassal state, and this shit affects me.
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.
sad day for our nation 😂😂 and the world!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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