>This story needs to be read. The corruption in Colorado is as bad a s Detroit or Philadelphia. Tina Peters is a gold star mom, a cancer survivor, a public servant, and a courageous whistleblower. And the rapidly unfolding events in Mesa County are making smoke coming out of my ears. As the County Clerk and Recorder for Mesa County, Tina Peters is the official — duly elected by the people of Mesa County — in charge of elections, with official custody (and responsibility) for the election equipment and electronics. This is Tina’s first term as Clerk and Recorder for Mesa County, and there was some turmoil surrounding her taking office from her predecessor, Sheila Reiner, after the November election. Months after the transfer of power, it was discovered that Ms. Reiner had (allegedly) retained, for herself and her staff, access to highly secure facilities for election equipment. Worse, she may have expanded this access to include additional unknown players right before leaving office. Some peaceful transfer of power, huh? When Tina Peters brought this to Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, Dan said, allegedly, that he didn’t have time to investigate the badge access evidence that Tina brought. Typical bureaucrat. Sheila then went on to participate in the effort to recall Clerk Peters. This lady has a major grudge. But that was months ago. A mere tussle between clerks during a transfer of power, right? Well, let’s look at recent news, shall we? In one week, Colorado Secretary of State Jonestown Jena (JJ for short), the partisan hack whose power drunkenness would make George III blush, has raided Tina’s office twice. The first was on August 11th and, considering the nature of the events, intent appears to be to doctor evidence and modify the machines with no observers present. Then on August 16th, it’s rumored that JJ’s flying monkeys raided Tina’s office again to seize all the equipment. In between those two raids, Jena Grinchwald swung by the home of a private citizen and stole toys from children — literally. What does JJ cite as her reason and authority? Her reason is that she alleges Tina stole passwords that Tina doesn’t have. She has no evidence of this, she just says it. And the authority she cites is, “because I said so.” First on the passwords: Only Dominion and the Secretary of State have the passwords. We know this because of the months long drama in Arizona where they won’t release the passwords. Every person in America right now knows how tightly held those passwords are. What’s more likely? That Dominion has different access rules across states for their super secret passwords, or that the standard in Arizona holds? Tina Peters never had access to admin BIOS passwords.  More at above link.