Voters in conservative Colorado county worry about nominating election denier for secretary of state
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 6:09 AM ET, Mon June 27, 2022
Grand Junction, Colorado (CNN)Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who has become Colorado's most prominent election denier and faces a series of legal battles after years of efforts to undermine the state's mail-in voting system, is seeking the Republican nomination in Tuesday's primary to become secretary of state.
But in the county on Colorado's Western Slope where she is barred by a district judge from performing her election-oversight duties, many voters -- including some unaffiliated voters who typically back Democrats but had voted in this year's Republican primary because of Peters' presence on the ballot -- said they want to stop her.
"Yes, there was voter fraud. She caused it," said Daria Kent, a 24-year-old teacher and unaffiliated voter in Grand Junction.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/politics/colorado-republican-secretary-of-state-primary-tina-peters/index.html