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Ex-Clerk Peters Gives Badge, Enables Dominion Data Theft

5/23/2026

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Tina Peters, former Mesa County clerk, misused a badge to covertly access a Dominion voting machine and disabled security cameras.
She gave Conan Hayes a badge, letting him copy the machine’s hard drive in May 2021.
Peters said the 2020 election was rigged against U.S. President Donald Trump, which drove her actions.
Mike Lindell later repackaged the stolen data to promote his election-fraud claim.

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Tina Peters, former Mesa County clerk, misused a badge to covertly access a Dominion voting machine and disabled security cameras.
She gave Conan Hayes a badge, letting him copy the machine’s hard drive in May 2021.
Peters said the 2020 election was rigged against U.S. President Donald Trump, which drove her actions.
Mike Lindell later repackaged the stolen data to promote his election-fraud claim.