A pro-Trump county clerk is accused of helping to leak sensitive election data to one of QAnon’s leaders: reports – By Joshua Zitser (Business Insider) / Aug 14 2021
- Colorado’s secretary of state said that a county clerk is accused of “assisting” in a security breach.
- Sensitive election data collected during the breach was leaked to Ron Watkins, Vice reported.
- Watkins, who is believed by some to be ‘Q,’ shared information from the leak on his Telegram channel.
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A pro-Trump election official in Colorado is accused of assisting in the compromising of voting machines and allowing someone to leak sensitive data to a prominent QAnon influencer, according to Vice.
Tina Peters, a county clerk in Mesa, Colorado, and so-called “Trump Truther,” permitted surveillance cameras to be turned off for up to two months, it is alleged. During that time, she has allowed someone to steal information that was then leaked to QAnon figurehead Ron Watkins, the media outlet reported.
At some point in May, Peters’s office reportedly ordered officials to turn off the surveillance cameras monitoring Mesa County’s voting equipment, according to evidence from Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jenna Griswold.
