Tina Peters urges federal officials to protect election infrastructure before it is too late
Tina PetersFormer Mesa County clerk and recorder
Peters calls on federal officials, whose accounts she tags, to protect the critical infrastructure of the nation's elections before it is too late.
“Protect the critical infrastructure of our nation's elections before its too late”
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Tina Peters' lawyer says her midterm plan would seize counted ballots for a hand recount; Colorado Democrats object
Peter Ticktin, a lawyer for former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, told podcaster Joe Oltmann that her idea for the November 3 midterms is to take control of ballots as soon as voting machines count them and then recount them by hand before certification. He called it a good plan that is probably going to happen. Ed Martin, a former Justice Department official, said Peters met President Trump in the Oval Office on October 5 to discuss election integrity; the White House said it does not comment on private meetings that may or may not have happened. Gov. Jared Polis said that if there was any discussion of seizing ballot boxes, it was dangerous, and other Colorado Democrats criticized Peters. Newsweek found no evidence that Peters asked Trump directly to seize ballots and notes that her published plan calls for independent hand counts where feasible.
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Tina Peters posted this on X on the night of October 25, 2026 (Mountain Time), tagging accounts of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Tina Peters' website presents her plan for the November 3, 2026 federal election, based on a document titled 2026 Election Infrastructure: Immediate Federal Risk-Mitigation Roadmap. It calls for a public federal risk declaration by DHS and CISA, a Commerce Department review of election equipment, hand-marked paper ballots and manual verification before certification.
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Peters' website presents a plan calling on DHS and CISA to declare a public election-infrastructure risk and to apply compensating controls before the November 3 federal election.
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The post tags the accounts of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, among others.
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The case concerns the federal action Peters has sought for the midterms, including the ballot plan her lawyer describes. In this post she repeats her call for federal officials to act on election infrastructure, a defense of that push.
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