Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for a 2021 security breach of election voting machines. Like clockwork, the left is celebrating the harsh punishment, but where are their cries for justice when violent criminals go free?

Before being taken to the Colorado Department of Corrections to serve her nine-year jail sentence, Peters will spend the next six weeks to six months in the Mesa County Detention Facility as ordered by 21st Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett. Peters could have (and should have) received probation for the offense, but at her sentencing, Barrett said the choice to max out her penalty was to make an example out of her.

Colorado Judge Matthew Barrett, appointed by Democrats, just sentenced 69-year-old Republican Tina Peters to nine years in prison.

Tina has no prior criminal record, who was found guilty of “attempting to influence a public servant in violation of duty” — which was a result of… pic.twitter.com/aZYnpCsnnP

— John Strand (@JohnStrandUSA) October 3, 2024

“In arguing why I should impose a particular sentence, she tells me about her ailments, her loss,........

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