Tina Peters, fresh out of prison, tells far-right podcaster: ‘They’re stealing our elections’
Peters also falsely claimed that voting machines are being used to change election outcomes.
Matt Cohen
Matt is a senior reporter covering elections, voting rights and threats to democracy. He’s covered far-right extremism, dark money and state and local elections as an investigative reporter at The American Independent and Mother Jones. Prior to reporting on politics, Matt cut his teeth as a local reporter in D.C. at the Washington City Paper and DCist.
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Minutes after she was released from prison, Peters appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast, where she continued to espouse the same conspiracies that led to her conviction.
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