Far-right election official in prison for compromising voting machines pleads for release

Far-right election official in prison for compromising voting machines pleads for release

Tina Peters, a former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk, petitioned a federal magistrate on Tuesday, asking to be granted bond while appealing her conviction at the state level for leaking sensitive voting-machine data.According to a report by Courthouse News Service published Tuesday, Chief Magistrate Judge Scott Varholak noted that, “I don’t think petitioner has cited a single case in the history of the United States where a federal court granted a…