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Tina Peters was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024. Now, she’s fielding an offer from a county that’s become a hotbed of voting-related conspiracy theories.

Last week, Clint Curtis, the top election official in Shasta County, California, publicly accused members of his own staff of bypassing security, which he later claimed was an attempt “to sabotage a federal election.”

Days later, Curtis announced plans to hire a new deputy: Tina Peters, the election denial superstar who was convicted of seven counts related to election interference in 2024 and sentenced to nine years in prison.

Peters has yet to publicly comment on the offer, but her lawyer Peter Ticktin tells WIRED she “is giving consideration to helping in the efforts in Shasta County as there most definitely has been monkey business in the way the election was handled.”

Peters was convicted after she allowed Conan Hayes unauthorized access to election equipment in Mesa County as part of a scheme to prove that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Donald Trump. (Hayes was never charged for his role in the scheme).

Colorado governor Jared Polis commuted Peters’ sentence in May after months of pressure from President Donald Trump, who purported to have issued his own pardon even though Peters was convicted on state charges.

Recently released court papers show how Trump and his advisers coordinated with federal agencies to cut federal funding and grants to Colorado as part of a pressure campaign to free Peters.