A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff and a judge who sentenced former county clerk Tina Peters to nearly nine years behind bars and admonished her for her role in a data breach scheme catalyzed by the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

The court that sentenced Tina Peters to nine years behind bars for her role in breaching election security in 2021 is now analyzing threats that it received following the sentencing. As reported by the Colorado Sun,

A judge ripped into a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

If anybody thinks it's over, they're out of their minds." Matt Crane, the head of the Colorado County Clerks Association, said he expects conversations around election security to continue for some time.

Colorado court administrators are investigating threats against a district court judge and its staff after a former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced this week in an election case. District Court Judge Matthew Barrett sentenced Peters to nine years in prison on Thursday and disparaged her push of discredited claims about rigged voting

A judge ripped into a former Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars.