A MAGA County’s Top Election Official Wants to Hire Election Denial Superstar Tina Peters
Last week, Clint Curtis, the top election official in Shasta County, California, publicly accused members of his own staff of bypassing security, which he later claimed was an attempt “to sabotage a federal election.”
Days later, Curtis announced plans to hire a new deputy: Tina Peters, the election denial superstar who was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024 and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, has yet to publicly comment on the offer, but her lawyer Peter Ticktin tells WIRED she “is giving consideration to helping in the efforts in Shasta County, as there most definitely has been monkey business in the way the election was handled.”
Peters was convicted after she allowed Conan Hayes, a former pro surfer who later worked for pillow salesman turned election denier Mike Lindell, unauthorized access to election equipment...
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