The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office confirmed that it “received and accepted the required funds for a discretionary statewide recount,” which the office told CNN cost Peters $255,912.33.
“The recounts will be conducted in accordance with the law, and will be finished by August 4,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a statement Thursday. The official results of the Secretary of State Republican primary show Peters trailing leading candidate Pam Anderson by 14 percentage points.
A proponent of former President Donald Trump’s election fraud conspiracy theories, Peters is accused of violating security procedures for Mesa County voting equipment, which allegedly resulted in confidential information being posted online.
Peters turned herself in, and her attorney, Harvey Steinberg, told CNN last week that she was released on $1,000 bond.
She was originally indicted by a grand jury after prosecutors said she and her deputies allegedly facilitated a security breach in May 2021. The breach resulted in confidential voting machine logins, and forensic images of their hard drives, being published in a QAnon-affiliated Telegram channel in early August 2021. She has denied any wrongdoing.
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