re: Remember gold star mom Tina Peters is sitting in prison today because of corrupt Dems

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Uh, she asked. How else would she learn them? Osmosis?

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Did you learn that in teacher school? Nice flex.

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The trial against former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters wrapped up its first week on Friday, featuring testimony by witnesses for the prosecution including IT professional Gerald Wood.

Peters, who is charged with crimes related to making a copy of an election database because she was concerned that not keeping the files for two years would violate the law, hired Wood to help her with technical issues. However, Wood repeatedly stated he couldn’t remember much when her attorney cross-examined him.

Wood, who ended up not performing any work for Peters, spent much of his time on the witness stand distancing himself from the appearance that he was involved with Peters bringing in an outside IT expert to observe an upgrade of the Dominion voting machine software since prosecutors alleged that a leak of computer bios passwords took place after IT expert Conan Hayes allegedly used Wood’s key card to enter the area where the upgrade was performed.

Peters’ attorney, John Case, confronted Wood about his claims of little involvement with the upgrade, which is also known as imaging. “Did you brag to Joe Oltmann that Conan Hayes used your key card to do the imaging?” Case asked. Wood responded, “No.”

Oltmann is a podcaster who focuses heavily on election integrity and reportedly will be called as a witness for the defense. Case said the alleged bragging took place when Oltmann was on the same plane as Wood, returning from a symposium on election fraud put on by Mike Lindell in South Dakota in August 2021.



Case tried to show with his cross-examination that Wood feared being prosecuted himself, so Wood testified to a grand jury against Peters after obtaining an immunity agreement with prosecutors. “Without this immunity agreement, you would have refused to answer questions before the grand jury based on your Fifth Amendment right?” he asked. Woods responded, “True.”

When Case asked Wood about a Signal group that Wood appeared to be in along with other IT professionals and Peters, Wood acted like he did not remember, even though Case showed Woods that his phone number was part of the group chat, connected to Wood’s Signal username “Trebuchet.”

Wood explained to Case that he used the nickname since he liked what it represented. “It is a medieval siege engine for throwing rocks to a great distance,” he said.

Case asked him, “Were you part of a group known as the Tech Team? Do you recall that?” Wood responded, “I don’t recall any of this.”

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I guess I’d just assume that someone who’s as attuned to politics and foreign affairs as she is would know.

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I never heard the term until Trump's first term...maybe Obama's. It only became somewhat associated with politics by emotional appeals of hyper partisanship and feigns of outrage

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The status has literally nothing to do with actual politics, policy, etc.

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She accessed the machines in May of 2021 six months after the election. Not only did she have the right to access that data, she had a responsibility to preserve the data for 25 months as the designated election official.

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if you even tangentially pay attention you should probably know the term.

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