In February 2020, employees in Peters' office admitted to discovering 574 uncounted ballots cast for the November 2019 election in a parking lot ballot box in front of the Mesa County election headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado. She campaigned with a platform that called for improvement in service from Colorado state's Division of Motor Vehicles' offices. Her position as county clerk with Mesa County was her first elected office held, when she was elected in 2018. to face criminal charges related to stolen election conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 United States presidential election. She was 'one of at least twenty-two election deniers vying to take charge of elections in eighteen states.' She was the first elections official in the U.S. presidential election, and with respect to an instance in which subsequent access to Mesa County voting machines was given. She was covered in regional, national, and international news since 2020 relating to her views on the conspiracy theory of election fraud in the 2020 U.S. Tina Peters (born 1955/1956) is a former County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado.
