The arrest affidavit from Fruita Police Department says Peters contacted the current Mesa County Director of Elections Brandi Bantz even though Peters is subject to a restraining order prohibiting her from contacting anyone in the clerk’s office. Peters sent an email to all 64 counties’ clerks a...
Trump lost Colorado in 2020 but won the majority of the vote in this county. Peters lost her bid to become Colorado's top elections official in June, losing a primary election in which she sought to become the Republican candidate to challenge Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold...
At least a dozen mailed ballots were intercepted and cast on the Western Slope before voters received them, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's Office. Three of those ballots were cast and counted in Mesa County before the county clerk was able to pull ...
The relationship between Clerk Peters and the all-GOP Mesa County Board of Commissioners has been deteriorating ever since the scandal over the breach of security in Peters’ officebroke back in August. After Peters spent weeks in hiding and then returned to work like nothing happened that relatio...