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According to an email sent by Mesa County Deputy Clerk Belinda Knisley and later cited in evidence by Colorado Secretary of State [[Jena Griswold]], Peters ordered the [[surveillance camera]]s monitoring the voting machines in the county clerk's office to be turned off on May 17, 2021, saying that they would be reactivated on August 1, 2021, in advance of the next election.<ref name="SOS">{{cite news | publisher=Colorado District Court, Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado | url=https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/newsRoom/pressReleases/2021/20211013Order-VerifiedPetitionForRelief.pdf | title=Verified Petition for Relief Under C.R.S. § 1-1-113 CASE NUMBER: 2021CV30214 | author=Judge Valerie J. Robinson | date=October 13, 2021}}</ref><ref name="unauthorized">{{cite news | publisher=Colorado Public Radio News | url=https://www.cpr.org/2021/08/12/investigators-mesa-county-clerk-allowed-election-conspiracy-theorist-to-compromise-voting-equipment/ | title=Investigators: Mesa County Clerk Allowed Unauthorized Person To Compromise Voting Equipment | first=Bente|last=Birkeland | date=August 12, 2021}}</ref> Peters later stated that no law or election rule required security cameras that monitor election equipment to operate continuously; at minimum, they must be on 60 days before an election and 30 days afterwards. Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland stated that Peters had not turned off the cameras after any of the eight previous elections that Peters had overseen since 2018.<ref>{{cite news | work=The Daily Sentinel | url=https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/officials-counter-false-election-claims/article_d9380b56-3681-11ec-be3e-3b0711ba0170.html | title=Officials Counter False Election Claims | first=Charles |last=Ashby | date=October 31, 2021}}</ref>
As shown by phone and cellphone records, Conan Hayes, co-founder of the clothing company [[RVCA]], traveled to [[Grand Junction, Colorado|Grand Junction]] on May 22, 2021; his hotel room was paid for by Sherronna Bishop, then-campaign manager for United States Representative [[Lauren Boebert]].<ref name="Hayes">{{cite news | url=https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/mesa-county-elections-manager-election-security/ | title=Former Mesa County elections manager arrested in election systems security breach case | work=Colorado Newsline | first=Sara |last=Wilson | date=July 13, 2022}}</ref> Peters later said that she
On May 23, Peters allowed Hayes to be present for a software update to the electronic voting machines. He was using an access badge for Gerald Wood,<ref name="FBI">{{cite news | work=The Denver Post | url=https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/17/fbi-mesa-county-election-equipment-griswold-peters/ | title=FBI investigating alleged Mesa County election equipment breach | first=Justin |last=Wingerter | date=August 17, 2021}}</ref> and according to Griswold, Peters misled her staff by saying "Wood" was an employee and had been background-checked.<ref name="unauthorized" /> Hayes left Grand Junction on May 26.<ref name="Hayes" /> [[Ron Watkins]] (CodeMonkeyZ) published on [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]], and ''[[The Gateway Pundit]]'' also published, videos, confidential passwords, and images that Griswold came to believe were from the Mesa County voting system. Griswold asserted that the passwords came from either Wood, Mesa County Elections Manager Sandra Brown, or Peters.<ref name="FBI" />
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