- Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
- Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
- She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.
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All these sentences for people who literally tried to subvert our Democracy are light as hell. Slap them for 15 years at a minimum.
At least they’re going to prison. How the fuck is Trump still a free man.
Presumably because he has more power in the form of money and influence.
I’m mildly surprised that username was available yesterday/today.
Eh not many people choose lemmynsfw as their home instance.
I’d’ve gone lemmy.world but they required an email and I didn’t want to give one.
Ahhh, Voyager doesn’t show me the instance they are on.
I totally agree, for her that’s likely a life sentence. I wonder if there isn’t some form of psychiatric help some of these people could benefit from. They’re all deeply brainwashed. Subjecting them to the people who have been portrayed so long as the enemy might change some minds. Though, I don’t know that I’d want to subject minorities to them.
Sometimes, people really do have bad intentions. This is one of those times. They don’t need psychiatric help. They need swift justice.
There’s no doubt she had bad intentions. The government is full of people with bad intentions. Taken at face value, somewhere between 40% and 60% of the US has bad intentions. Does that mean we’re almost half evil or that a lot of us are programmed horribly?
My father, born and raised in Appalachia, was born into racism. Met a black guy, he was nice to my dad. Over the years my dad liked him and considered him a friend. Years later he recounts that this guy was one of the good N’s. JFC dad, where do I start? It’s not that an entire race of people is bad; you’ve been lied to your whole life and watch news that perpetuates that lie. It’s the same overall story with an Indian guy from work who shared some of his family’s curry with him. “He’s one of the good ones…” He votes with the republicans because of “all these horrible minorities waving flags on top buildings”. He’s only ever met a couple and says they’re good. He’s not evil, he’s just been lied to his whole life and has never been exposed to enough minorities to get de-programmed. Would he throw a box of democratic votes in the river if no one was looking? His friends, neighbors, and politicians are telling him he’s going to get overrun and shot by minorities if the left keeps winning. He might. Thankfully, he’ll never be in that position, but their programming is intensely strong.
Your father has bad intentions, doesn’t matter how he got them. There is no deprogramming going on. No one is making an effort to educate these people. If anything, this polarization will get worse. Best case scenario is education gets fixed and this hysteria is buried over time.
I mean some people are in prison for longer because the were enjoying some weed.
These should all have conspiracy for sedition or some such on them. But our legal system is too broken to look at that question.
She’s 69. Prison isn’t easy at any age. This is likely a life sentence for her.
It doesnt matter. How many others would be down for sedition if she got slapped with a thirty year sentence at her age? Not many.