Read the indictment of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters

Peters, a Republican seeking the GOP nomination for secretary of state, is the first elections official to face criminal charges related to conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election, according to multiple experts. She is accused not of fixing the election but of breaking the law as she sought to investigate whether someone else did. The indictment below, returned March 8 by a Mesa County grand jury, lays out the allegations against her and her deputy, Belinda Knisley.