Tina Peters and the Truth about the 'Trusted Build' | August 13

“Tina’s in this position because she didn’t take her job seriously enough to learn it, and she became an easy mark for grifters and bad actors…Unfortunately she’s looking at jailtime now where the others aren’t.” — Guest Matt Crane

Ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was convicted of seven crimes, including four felonies, in a 2021 election security breach. She insists the case was brought to suppress “evidence” she uncovered about what happens in the “Trusted Build” upgrade of Dominion voting software. But what is the truth of her claims?

Matt Crane, longtime clerk for Arapahoe County and now executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, breaks down what really happens in this update — and what we already knew even when Peters was plotting the breach.

“County clerks will go in and back that up every day so that if there’s a catastrophic failure in the system, they can take that backup and not lose any data and start where they left off, so they don’t have to go all the way back to the beginning of the election. The access and activity logs from the voting system itself are maintained in these backups, too…”