Rubinstein says Peters violated the terms of her bond by traveling to Nevada without the court’s permission. Peters was in a photo posted on social media with Gail Golec, a candidate running for a seat on the Arizona Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, at a July 12 conference in Las Vegas. “Next steps strategy for #electionprotection,” read the caption, taken at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers (CSPOA) event in Nevada. In the bond revocation affidavit filed Wednesday, Rubinstein noted that Peters also took the stage at the convention. Additionally, a letter requesting a recount of her failed bid for secretary of state during the June primary was signed by Peters and notarized on July 12 in Nevada, according to the DA. Investigators verified the date and place of the deed, a violation of Peters’ bond. Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold’s office told CNN it received the notarized letter from Peters Thursday morning. It’s the latest in a series of legal battles for Peters, who has become a prominent figure on the far right in Colorado after supporting former President Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Peters last month sought the Republican nomination for Colorado secretary of state — a position that would allow her to take over the election machinery in a state that conducts its elections by mail, a process she has unsubstantiatedly claimed is rife with fraud and said that he wants to dissolve. But Republicans rejected Peters’ bid, instead nominating Pam Anderson, a former county clerk who championed the integrity of Colorado’s elections and ran to oversee the process. In addition, Peters was indicted by a grand jury after prosecutors said Peters and her deputies facilitated a security breach in May 2021. The breach resulted in confidential voting machine connections and forensic images of their hard drives, which were released on a Telegram channel associated with QAnon in early August 2021. She pleaded not guilty and was not allowed to travel out of state without permission from the court. In May, following a lawsuit brought by Griswold — a separate legal proceeding — a district judge removed Peters from her post overseeing this year’s Mesa County elections. Peters has aligned herself with far-right figures who have promoted Trump’s lies about widespread election fraud. He appeared at the “Cyber Symposium,” a gathering of election deniers last year where a number of debunked conspiracy theories about the 2020 election were advanced, and in Colorado with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. CNN has reached out to Peters for comment. He has publicly stated that the investigation was partisan and politically motivated. He told Colorado Public Radio this month that the charges he faces are “ridiculous.” “If I have to be controversial to get the truth out, I’m not afraid of that. And that would make me dangerous, because I’m not afraid,” he said.
