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Dec. 2, 2024 10:40 am

Guest post by Erin Clements and published at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission.

Truth is Treason in an Empire of Lies

thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/bombshell-exclusive-colorado-officials-persecuting-tina-peters-worked/

President Trump said, “Does anyone notice that the election-rigging Biden administration never goes after the riggers, but only after those that want to catch and expose the rigging dogs?”

One of the most high-profile examples of the government’s prosecution of the innocent—is former Mesa County Clerk, Tina Peters.

After Peters’ sentencing last month to nine years in prison—new information has surfaced showing that Colorado officials were working for Dominion and Runbeck, while simultaneously orchestrating Peters’ reputational and legal downfall through back channels.

PETERS PROTECTS HER ELECTION RECORDS FROM BEING ERASED BY DOMINION, ANGERING DOMINION AND THEIR CAPTURED PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Following the 2020 election, Tina Peters received notice from the Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, that Dominion Voting Systems would be visiting her office to install a “trusted build” on her election system. The “trusted build” would overwrite the data that was stored on her computers. As the elected County Clerk and Recorder, Peters was the custodian of the election records and had a duty to preserve them for 25 months. So, Peters had a copy made of her central election computer to ensure that the records would be preserved prior to the “trusted build.” She also made another copy of the machine after the “trusted build.” (https://casetext.com/statute/colorado-revised-statutes/title-1-elections/general-primary-recall-and-congressional-vacancy-elections/article-7-conduct-of-elections/part-8-preservation-of-ballots-and-election-records/section-1-7-802-preservation-of-election-records)

Tina Peters, Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, Dominion Whistleblower

When the “before” copy of the original election files was analyzed by experts, it was discovered that the election database had been deleted and overwritten while the 2020 election was ongoing. In other words, it was like the Dominion software was keeping two sets of books on the election. The “after” copy of the database showed that Dominion had in fact deleted election records from the county’s machines, breaking state and federal law. Mesa County District Attorney, Dan Rubinstein conducted a non-technical investigation into the claims made by the experts and declared the anomalies inside the Dominion database to be caused by “human error” – a claim that has since been debunked. (https://tinapeters.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Mesa-county-forensic-report-no-3-signed.pdf, https://www.kkco11news.com/2022/05/20/district-attorney-investigation-finds-no-evidence-criminal-activity-election-fraud-report/, https://tinapeters.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OFFICIAL-STATEMENT-5-20.pdf)

For the sin of preserving Mesa County’s election records, Peters was charged and convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state. The jury acquitted Peters of criminal impersonation, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, and identity theft. Peters has filed an appeal for multiple legal errors made by the court during her trial. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1blBUu7S3AF5ndaaqE8t_IBAlzaGT4twX/view)

However, newly released emails between Mesa County officials show that Tina Peters was not only set up to fail with respect to answering questions concerning the 2020 election, but she was set up to fail the moment she set foot in the clerk’s office.

TINA PETERS UPSET THE INCESTUOUS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOMINION AND COLORADO COUNTY OFFICIALS

To understand how stunning these new revelations are, it is necessary to know some of the political history of Mesa County, Colorado.

In 2018, Sheila Riener reached term limits in her position as Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, so she ran for, and won, the County Treasurer position, taking office in the beginning of 2019. (https://www.mesacounty.us/departments-and-services/treasurer )

Sheila Reiner, former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, worked for Dominion, Current Treasurer

A woman named Bobbie Gross worked as the Co-Director of Elections under Reiner and was running to be the next Clerk and Recorder. But Tina Peters, completely new to politics, unexpectedly threw her hat in the ring to run for the office. Peters promised to fix three-hour wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles, which is run by the Clerk and Recorder’s office. Upsetting Gross’s plans, Peters won her election in November of 2018 and was sworn in to office in January 2019. Gross left the Clerk and Recorder’s office after her defeat and went to work for Reiner in the Treasurer’s Office as a “Treasurer’s Technician.”

Bobbie Gross, Former Co-Director of Elections, worked for Dominion, Current Mesa County Clerk and Recorder

Though Reiner and Gross were now in the Treasurer’s Office, Dominion Voting Systems was sending emails to Sheila Reiner throughout 2019 with information that would not have been appropriate for her to deal with as she was no longer the Clerk and Recorder. For example, in the following email exchange that took place on September 23, 2019, Dominion can be seen communicating directly with Reiner regarding their Dominion ICX ballot marking devices. Dominion gave Reiner a tracking number for their “product package” and offered help with the pre-election logic and accuracy testing. Again, at this time Tina Peters was the clerk and recorder for Mesa County.

Email from Dominion to County Treasurer Sheila Reiner

Why would Dominion send emails to the Mesa County Treasurer?

Even though Reiner was not the Clerk and Recorder, investigators have learned she was working for Dominion Voting.

In an email exchange dated October 14, 2019, Dominion sent an email to a neighboring County Clerk and Recorder, Lana Hancock, letting Hancock know that Treasurer Reiner would be her Election Day support from Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion provides Reiner’s official county contact information before Reiner redirects Hancock to use her Dominion email and phone number. (https://dolocnty.colorado.gov/departments/clerk-and-recorder)

Sheila Reiner was working for Dominion while she was the Mesa County Treasurer, and everyone seems to know it

It’s astonishing that no one involved in this exchange questioned the ethical appropriateness of this arrangement.

About a month later, Dominion sent Reiner an email inviting her to the “2020 Ballot Programming Kickoff.” Tina Peters is clearly absent from the invitation list, which only includes Dominion employees and Reiner. Incredibly, Reiner received the invitation three times – once to her Mesa County email address, once to her 2018 campaign email address, and once to her Dominion Voting Systems email address.

Sheila Reiner receives emails to her county, campaign, and Dominion email addresses about upcoming elections when she had no jurisdiction to be involved in them as the County Treasurer

The subject of the meeting is odd – “2020 Ballot Programming Kickoff.” With the date of the meeting almost a year out from the 2020 election, it is still far too early to know who will be running for the various offices. Why were they preparing so early to program the 2020 ballots?

By law, all communications of public officials and government employees must be maintained and released to the public upon request. Dominion’s choice to communicate with Reiner using private email addresses would have the effect of circumventing Colorado State law – allowing them to interact with public officials without there being any way for the public to obtain their messages. There is a clear line of communication with a public official concerning taxpayer funded election services and all of this was hidden from the public.

But Dominion didn’t stop with Reiner on their team while she simultaneously was a “public servant.” The June 15, 2020, email below indicates Dominion had extended offers to Bobbie Gross, Amanda Polson, and one other person:

Dominion offers positions to Bobbie Gross and former Mesa County Election Director, Amanda Polson

At the time of this email, Bobbie Gross was working under Sheila Reiner in the Mesa County Treasurer’s Office. Amanda Polson was the Mesa County Election Director, but quit her job when Tina Peters took office. Shortly before this offer from Dominion, Polson was heading an effort to attempt to recall Tina Peters, which ultimately failed to garner the required number of signatures. (https://www.westernslopenow.com/news/local-news/organizer-behind-clerk-recall-petition-speaks-out/)

Bobbie Gross accepted the position and was assigned by Dominion to assist Mineral County during the November 2020 election:

Bobbie Gross was working for Dominion while she was a “treasurer technician” in the Mesa County Treasurer’s Office

How widespread is this conflict-of-interest infecting Colorado’s “public servants”? How many other elected officials, county employees, and former elected officials are working with Dominion and receiving communications from them that bypass Colorado’s public documents laws?

Bobbie Gross was elected to the role of Mesa County Clerk and Recorder when Tina Peter’s term ended in 2022. Did she disclose that she had a position with Dominion when she was running? Can she faithfully carry out her duties to the public who have grown to distrust Dominion? Is Gross still working for Dominion? (https://time.com/6280840/dominion-fox-news-voting-machines-john-poulos/)

THE COVER UP

In August of 2021, Tina Peters went public with the fact that Dominion had destroyed her election records against state and federal law. Later, it came out that Dominion software kept two sets of records which were being overwritten during the 2020 election, for which there is no honest explanation. As is sadly the case with many whistleblowers in corrupt regimes, she received much persecution for her trouble.

Sheila Reiner and Bobbie Gross both assisted in the media pile-on against whistleblower Peters. At no time did they or the media disclose that they were also working for the very company Peters was blowing the whistle on. The following quote from Sheila Reiner takes on new meaning when it is understood that Reiner had been colluding with Dominion to undermine Peters’ authority, and bypassing public records laws: (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mesa-county-is-still-reeling-from-election-denying-county-clerk-tina-peters)

“I had been in Mesa County elections for over 20 years at that point, and it was just like watching someone destroy our reputation. And even though what she did only happened to some equipment, the entire process is now tainted.”

Is she talking about “our reputation” as a Mesa County official? Or is “our reputation” referring to her position with Dominion?

Colorado law forbids any government official or employee from accepting gifts “which would tend to improperly influence a…person…from the faithful discharge of his public duties, or which a person … in his position should know … is primarily for the purpose of rewarding him for official action he has taken.” Was Dominion undermining the public’s interest by directly hiring “for sale” government officials? (https://www.cml.org/docs/default-source/uploadedfiles/issues/ethics/ethics_conflict_of_interest.pdf?sfvrsn=99be1361_2)

Days after Peters blew the whistle on Dominion, the cover-up conspiracy deepened when the Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, appointed Sheila Reiner to run Mesa County’s elections going forward. This move upset the Mesa County Commission who wanted to appoint a man named Wayne Williams to the job. In the end, Sheila Reiner and Wayne Williams decided to share the post. (https://coloradosun.com/2021/08/17/tina-peters-replaced/, https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/wayne-williams-sheila-reiner-plan-to-share-duties-while-state-county-sort-out-who-can/article_c2ed4c6a-010e-11ec-97ed-2f6b4dd21762.html)

Wayne Williams, Runbeck Senior Advisor, with Shiela Reiner, Mesa County Treasurer and with Dominion

Wayne Williams was, and still is, Senior Advisor for Runbeck Election Services – the vendor which prints and mails Mesa County’s mail-in-ballots. (https://eoldn.org/leadership/wayne-williams/)

Wayne Williams’s business card, Senior Advisor for Runbeck Election Services, Hired by Mesa County to run their elections

The legality of either the SOS or the Mesa County Commission unilaterally replacing a duly elected county official with a Runbeck employee and an individual working for Dominion who had already termed-out of the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder’s office is questionable. But Griswold had the support of Biden’s FBI so apparently no questions were asked. (https://coloradosun.com/2021/08/17/tina-peters-replaced/)

Another of Peters’ critics and staunch supporter of Griswold’s move to unilaterally remove her from office was the leader of Colorado’s County Clerk’s Association, Matt Crane. It turns out Matt Crane’s wife, Lisa Flannigan-Crane, worked for Dominion for almost a decade as a close colleague of the infamous Dominion Vice President, Eric Coomer – who was overheard before the 2020 election stating – “Don’t worry about the election. Trump is not going to win. I made a f***ing sure of that.” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/caught-matt-crane-critic-tgps-article-obvious-questions-2020-election-results-colorado-not-forthright-turns-wife-worked-dominion-sequoia-d/, https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1705666054436130898 )

Wayne Williams would go on to bill Mesa County $31,283 for about six weeks of “work” between mid-August and the end of September 2021, while his company, Runbeck, was also profiting off the county.

To add to Williams’ appearance of impropriety, he billed Mesa County for “dinner with Lynn Bartels to enlist assistance in media matters.” Lynn Bartels is a journalist and former communications director for the Colorado Secretary of State. It is unknown what kind of “assistance” she intended to give Mesa County with “media matters,” but she is good friends with another writer named Charles Ashby at the Grand Junction Sentinel, who was one of several “journalists” in Colorado who ran non-stop hit pieces on Tina Peters. Was Bartels coordinating that effort for Williams and Mesa County?

Excerpt from Wayne Williams’ Invoice to Mesa County

The appearance of massive corruption in Mesa County doesn’t end there. Within two weeks of Tina Peters going public with the information that Dominion had illegally erased election records, the Mesa County Commission voted to extend Dominion’s contract through 2029 and even invited the CEO of Dominion, John Poulos, to join them behind closed doors for a special session meeting which was hidden from the public. The County Commission did nothing to investigate Peters’ claims about Dominion erasing the County’s election records, but they couldn’t throw her under the bus fast enough. Why would the Mesa County Commissioners be so eager to side with Dominion over the interests of their own citizens? (http://blog.mesacounty.us/2021/08/commissioners-approve-new-dominion.html)

Mesa County Commission Secret Special Meeting with Dominion CEO, John Poulos

THE BIDEN REGIME JOINS THE COVER UP

The FBI gave a statement almost immediately after Peters came forward that they were going to investigate her for violation of federal laws. The Biden regime never formally prosecuted Tina, but it appears Biden’s Department of Justice was holding hands with the local Colorado officials who were seeking to put Peters in jail. (https://coloradosun.com/2021/08/17/tina-peters-replaced/)

The Mesa County District Attorney, Dan Rubinstein, included Matthew Kirsh, the United States Attorney for Colorado in a May 17, 2022, email to multiple District Attorneys across Colorado. The email is titled “Rule 3.8 Meeting” which appears to reference the rules of professional conduct for prosecutors. (https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/meet-us-attorney, https://www.cobar.org/Portals/COBAR/Repository/12.1.22/Rule%203.8%20-%20Special%20Responsibilities%20of%20a%20Prosecutor.pdf?ver=h4k_BG_0T1kn7Rdgo8sLiQ%3D%3D )

Email from Dan Rubinstein to DOJ attorney and Colorado District Attorneys, apparently brainstorming how to appear legitimate and ethical while prosecuting Tina Peters

The email suggests that Rubinstein was having some trouble reconciling the prosecution of Tina Peters with prosecutors’ rules of professional conduct and had to call in the calvary to help him brainstorm ways to avoid being “accused of wrongdoing.”

Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein

First, Rubinstein appears to recognize that there is no precedent for the prosecution he wants to undertake, as he expresses a desire that this group of legal minds start writing opinions and issuing guidance documents in the vein of the Colorado Bar Association (CBA) and the Colorado District Attorneys’ Council (CDAC). Without a coherent legal pathway for prosecution, it appears Rubinstein encouraged this course of action to give prosecutors cover. Second, Rubinstein notes that it is problematic that they have no formal appointments from a government body to lay the groundwork to prosecute Peters. Third, Rubinstein informs the group of their need to anticipate defending themselves as to why they didn’t seek an opinion on Peter’s case from the Colorado Bar Association Ethics Commission. Rubinstein and his cronies appear to have succeeded in giving their efforts the veneer of legitimacy because three months after this email was sent, Peters was indicted by a grand jury. (https://www.coloradopolitics.com/courts/tina-peters-arraigned-on-10-felony-misdemeanor-charges-in-case-alleging-election-equipment-breach/article_7ad92362-14ff-11ed-8571-7fe4f678dc82.html)

These legal gymnastics are reminiscent of the New York Legislature changing the statute of limitations on sex crimes specifically so that E. Jean Carroll could bring a civil action against President Trump to smear him leading up to the 2024 election. And then there’s the Michigan judge who made a ruling years after the fact that a court order was needed to access voting machines, so that Attorney General Dana Nessel could appoint a special prosecutor to go after a team of investigators who were looking at a massive vote-flip that took place inside the Dominion voting system in Antrim County, Michigan. (https://www.eglaw.com/blog/new-york-state-law-extends-the-statute-of-limitations-for-sex-crimes/, https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/judge-paves-way-charges-michigan-vote-machine-tampering-probe)

VENDORS OWN COLORADO ELECTIONS AND ELECTION OFFICIALS

With the incestuous arrangements Dominion and Runbeck have with county officials in Colorado, it’s no wonder so few Colorado officials were willing to join Tina Peters in demanding accountability. It’s also no wonder why Colorado election officials have failed to stand up to Dominion to ask why there are two sets of books inside the machines counting votes and why they routinely erase election records.

Peters was convicted of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and identity theft. All three of those would seem to more closely to apply to Sheila Reiner, Bobbie Gross, and Dan Rubinstein. Reiner kept her hands in Mesa County Elections when she had no jurisdiction to do so and without the knowledge of the person duly elected to that office. Both Reiner and Gross carried on private communications with Dominion and got themselves positions with Dominion emails. Both women currently hold public office, yet they have not disclosed their conflict of interest with Dominion to the media or the public. And Dan Rubinstein and his DOJ friends appear to have known all along that they had no legal precedent for prosecuting Tina Peters, but they proceeded with their political witch hunt anyways.

As bad as all this rampant corruption is, Secretary of State Jena Griswold is the guiltiest of all. In 2022 Griswold sent 30,000 mailers inviting non-citizens to register to vote. And last month it was discovered that Griswold posted the passwords to the statewide Dominion election system on the internet where they could be accessed by anyone. When she found out about it, she removed the passwords from the internet, reported the incident to the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), but did not tell any election officials in Colorado about it, or do anything to investigate or mitigate the potential problem. Days later after the Republican party and media had found out about the breach, Griswold lied about the extent of the problem and changed a few passwords on some of the affected machines, but never halted the ongoing election or did any real investigation to determine if there had been any system breaches due to the exposed passwords. One individual from the mainstream media skewered Griswold over this massive breach of Colorado’s voting system and pointed out the hypocrisy of Griswold crucifying Tina Peters while lying to protect herself. (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/lawless-colorado-secretary-state-jena-griswold-sends-30000-voter-registration-notices-noncitizens-english-spanish/, https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/brutal-colorado-news-anchor-shreds-jena-griswold-live/)

Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold

In 2022, Colorado statutes were amended to make this very action committed by Griswold a crime punishable by 1 to 3 years in prison: “Any person who knowingly publishes or causes to be published passwords or other confidential information relating to a voting system shall immediately have their authorized access revoked and is guilty of a class 5 felony.” (https://casetext.com/statute/colorado-revised-statutes/title-1-elections/general-primary-recall-and-congressional-vacancy-elections/article-13-election-offenses/part-7-offenses-conduct-of-elections/section-1-13-708-tampering-with-voting-equipment)

If anyone belongs in jail, it is Griswold and the multitude of Mesa County officials and employees who have blurred the lines between “public service” and personal enrichment. Tina Peters is the only person involved in this ordeal who upheld Colorado’s standard for ethics in government:

“The conduct of public officers, members of the general assembly, local government officials, and government employees must hold the respect and confidence of the people; They shall carry out their duties for the benefit of the people of the state; They shall, therefore, avoid conduct that is in violation of their public trust or that creates a justifiable impression among members of the public that such trust is being violated; Any effort to realize personal financial gain through public office other than compensation provided by law is a violation of that trust.”

(https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/info_center/laws/COConstitution/ArticleXXIX.html)

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author. They do not represent the ideas or views of TGP or any of its other writers in any way.