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Tina Peters

Mesa County, Colorado Clerk who created forensic backup images of Dominion voting machines before a "Trusted Build" software update — revealing that 29,000 election records were deleted. Later convicted of criminal charges she characterizes as retaliation.

FieldDetails
Full NameTina Marie Peters
RoleWhistleblower / Elected Official (County Clerk)
PlatformMesa County, Colorado Clerk & Recorder, 2019–2023
StatusCONVICTED — sentenced to 9 years in Colorado (August 2024); on appeal
Current SituationIncarcerated; appeal pending; election integrity community views conviction as political retaliation
Notable Works"Selection Code" (documentary, 2022, featuring Peters and the Mesa County forensic findings)
Cases InvestigatedMesa County 2020 election; "Trusted Build" Dominion software update (May 2021)
Evidence RatingSTRONG EVIDENCE — forensic images are real and comparison is documented; legal dispute is over methodology and authorization, not the images' existence

Video Evidence​

Video — Trusted Build Nationwide Evidence Destruction (April 7, 2026, @TheSCIF)

After Tina Peters created backup logs which proved election fraud in the stolen 2020 election, Dominion started to send in reps all across the country to election precincts under the guise of "Trusted Build Maintenance" and wiped 2020 election records. This video details how Dominion reps went into jurisdictions nationwide wiping records that were legally required to be preserved under federal election retention statutes.

Source: @TheSCIF · April 7, 2026 · 18,734 likes, 8,856 retweets, 319,319 views

Video transcription key excerpt:

"Around that time frame. I don't have the specific dates. We know that backups were created by Tina Peters who's a county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado and we started getting information across the country of Dominion reps going in under the guides of this trusted build maintenance and there were wiping records... the fact the matter is under one-twelve-sixty-nine those records by law have to be preserved."

"They wanted to convince the clerk staff that they must have done something wrong."

The citation to "1-12-69" appears to reference 52 U.S.C. § 20701 — the federal election records retention statute requiring records be preserved for 22 months after a federal election.

The video transcript also references the "Mike Lindell Cyber Symposium" (summer 2021) as the period when Dominion's nationwide Trusted Build rollout began — connecting Peters' July 2021 Mesa County evidence to a broader national pattern of simultaneous record deletion across all Dominion jurisdictions.

What She Did​

In May 2021, Dominion Voting Systems scheduled a "Trusted Build" software update for voting machines across multiple jurisdictions. Peters, as Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, directed staff to create forensic disk images of the Mesa County voting machines before the update was applied. After the update, she directed creation of a second set of forensic images.

When an independent team of analysts — including Doug Gould (forensic examiner) and Dr. Walter Daugherity (Texas A&M professor emeritus) — compared the before and after images, they found that 29,000 election records had been deleted or altered during the update. The analysts characterized this as intentional destruction of election records that were subject to federal and state retention requirements.

Peters released the forensic images and the analysis publicly, asserting that the "Trusted Build" process was being used as a mechanism to destroy election evidence under the cover of routine maintenance — and that the same process was scheduled to run in Dominion jurisdictions across the country.

Their Findings​

  1. 29,000 Records Deleted/Altered: Comparison of before/after forensic images of Mesa County's Dominion equipment showed approximately 29,000 election records present before the "Trusted Build" update that were gone or altered afterward.

  2. Federal Retention Violation Alleged: Federal law (52 U.S.C. § 20701) requires election records to be preserved for 22 months. The analysts argued that deleting these records within months of the 2020 election violated federal retention requirements.

  3. Statewide/National Pattern Alleged: Peters characterized the "Trusted Build" as a nationwide rollout intended to destroy evidence in all Dominion jurisdictions simultaneously — a coordinated cover-up, not routine maintenance.

  4. Database Integrity Questions: The forensic report noted changes to election database structures and configurations that, according to the analysts, should not occur during a routine software update.

Key Quotes​

"And when they compared the two images, they discovered that election records had been deleted or altered — 29,000 of them." — Paraphrase of forensic findings, widely attributed in election integrity community; sourced by @Real_RobN (April 8, 2026)

"Tina Peters created backup logs which confirmed the overthrow of your government on November 3, 2020 — which they were going to delete across the country under the guise of 'Trusted Build Maintenance.'" — @Real_RobN, X/Twitter, April 8, 2026

Where She Presented It​

  • "Selection Code" (2022) — Documentary film featuring Peters and the Mesa County forensic analysis; distributed in election integrity communities
  • Election Integrity Summits (2021–2022) — Peters hosted and participated in events presenting the Mesa County findings to election integrity advocates, including a well-attended Summit in Aspen, CO
  • Public social media distribution — The forensic images were uploaded and shared widely, including through Telegram channels and election integrity websites
  • Mesa County Reports — Website (mesacountyreports.org) that published the full forensic analysis, comparison data, and related documents

The Counterargument​

  • Normal database operations: Dominion and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold argued that the "deleted records" identified by Peters' analysts reflect normal database reorganization during software updates — records are archived and restructured, not destroyed. They assert the 22-month federal retention requirement was met.
  • Forensic chain of custody compromised: Peters allowed Jeff Young (aka Conan Hayes), an unauthorized individual, access to the voting machines during the imaging process. Colorado prosecutors argued this unauthorized access tainted any forensic conclusions drawn from the images.
  • Misinterpretation of database structures: Expert witnesses for Colorado argued that Peters' analysts misunderstood the Dominion database schema and conflated archived records with deleted records.
  • Results unchanged: Maricopa County's hand count of physical ballots confirmed the machine count. If 29,000 records had been deleted to hide a Trump win, hand count results would reveal the discrepancy.

Suppression / Prosecution Timeline​

DateEvent
May 2021Peters directs forensic imaging before/after Dominion "Trusted Build" update
May 2021Trusted Build update runs; 29,000 records found deleted in comparison
Mid-2021Peters hosts election integrity summit; forensic images become public
August 2021Colorado SoS Jena Griswold launches investigation into Peters for unauthorized access
2021–2022Peters' office raided; forensic drives seized
2022"Selection Code" documentary released
2022Peters ran unsuccessfully for Colorado Secretary of State
2022Peters indicted on multiple counts
June 2024Peters convicted at trial
August 13, 2024Peters sentenced to 9 years in Colorado state prison
2024–presentPeters' appeal pending

Why This Person Is at Risk​

Peters was the only elected official in the country who created and publicly released forensic images documenting changes to Dominion voting machine databases. Within months of releasing the images, she was investigated, indicted, convicted, and sentenced to nearly a decade in prison. Election integrity advocates argue this sequence — disclosure followed by criminal prosecution — constitutes political retaliation designed to:

  1. Discredit the forensic findings by associating them with a "convicted criminal"
  2. Deter other election officials from attempting similar forensic reviews
  3. Destroy the chain of custody for the images so they cannot be admitted as evidence in future proceedings

Peters' supporters note that the charges (criminal impersonation, identity theft, etc.) related primarily to how she obtained access to the imaging session, not to whether the forensic images themselves accurately reflect what happened to the databases.

  • Maricopa Arizona Audit Deletion — The Arizona parallel: Maricopa officials allegedly deleted 2020 results before the Arizona Senate Audit; same "Trusted Build" mechanism invoked
  • Dominion Voting Systems — The company whose machines were imaged; full corporate structure and patent trail
  • Mark Cook — Georgia election/cyber-security expert who alleged Dominion has a built-in backdoor; another instance of technical disclosure followed by censorship
  • Arizona — State-level hub for all Arizona 2020 audit and election fraud claims
  • 2020 Antrim County Michigan — Separate forensic audit finding 68% error rate in Dominion machines; parallel pattern of disputed methodology vs. real anomalies

Other Coverage Worth Reading​

  • Maricopa Arizona Audit Deletion: Video surveillance and Dominion logs timestamped 4-12-2021 show officials allegedly deleting records days before Arizona Senate audit.
  • Mark Cook: Georgia election expert's live testimony about Dominion backdoor — 10 seconds censored at the exact moment of disclosure.
  • Dominion Voting Systems: Patent ownership chain (HSBC Canada, KEAN University) and $400M Staple Street Capital investment from Chinese banks.
  • China Dominion Components: CCP-sourced hardware components in Dominion machines — the hardware layer beneath the software deletion story.

Sources​

Status: Alive — incarcerated (as of April 2026), appeal pending

This information was compiled by Claude AI research.