Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories

Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 ​people with direct knowledge of the matter.

#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
reuters.com/legal/litigation/t…

The remarkable development cuts short the roughly nine-year sentence that #TinaPeters, a former county clerk in Mesa County, #Colorado, was given after being convicted in 2024 for her role in a brazen plot to “examine” [tamper with] voting machines under her control after the #2020election. Peters had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the contest against #Trump.

#law #ElectionLaw #accountability #consequences #BigLie #SeditiousConspiracy

Yet another entry from the“you’ve got to be shitting me” files:

#TinaPeters, #Colorado #ElectionDenier, Will Be Freed by Governor

Gov. #JaredPolis, a #Democrat 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻, commuted the sentence of Peters, a former county clerk serving a 9-year sentence for her role in a plot to tamper with voting machines after the #2020election.

#law #ElectionLaw #accountability #consequences #Trump #BigLie #SeditiousConspiracy
nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/poli…