Only one other state-level candidate succeeded in raising the money to pay for a recount. Peters, however, has claimed without evidence that there was malfeasance in the vote-counting process. A statistical audit of the 2022 primary results conducted by state elections officials found no discrepancies. Peters paid more than $250,000 for the statewide recount.
That’s despite all of them being defeated by sizable margins. Peters and other unsuccessful Colorado candidates who spread unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump began pleading for cash to pay for recounts in the days after the primary. 1 with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Peters’ haul was also the largest among all statewide candidates from June 23 to July 27, based on state-level campaign finance reports filed Aug. Of that, 72% came from out-of-state donors.Ĭandidates are allowed to continue raising money after they lose their elections, and Peters’ fundraising during the last period was her campaign’s largest since she announced her bid earlier this year. The vast majority of the cash, or $506,000, flowed in after the June 28 Republican primary for secretary of state, which was won by former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson. Indicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters raised $519,000 for her unsuccessful campaign for secretary of state between June 23 and July 27, enabling the Republican to cover travel expenses to Las Vegas and pay cost of a recount in the primary contest she lost by nearly 90,000 votes.
Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters raised a majority of her campaign contributions after losing the June 28 Republican primary – money she is using to pay for a recount.
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