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   (CNN)A Colorado judge on Thursday ordered the arrest of Tina   
   Peters, the indicted Mesa County clerk and leading election   
   denier who lost last month's Republican primary for secretary of   
   state.   
      
   District Judge Matthew Barrett issued the no-bond warrant,   
   granting District Attorney Dan Rubinstein's request, after   
   Peters allegedly violated the terms of her bond by leaving the   
   state without permission.   
      
   Rubinstein says Peters violated the terms of her bond by   
   traveling to Nevada without the court's approval.   
      
   Peters was in a photo posted to social media with Gail Golec, a   
   candidate running for a seat on Arizona's Maricopa County   
   Supervisors Board, at a conference on July 12 in Las Vegas.   
   "Strategizing next steps for #election protection," said the   
   caption, taken at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers   
   Association event in Nevada. In the affidavit to revoke bond   
   filed Wednesday, Rubinstein noted that Peters also took the   
   stage at the conference.   
      
   Additionally, a letter requesting a recount of her failed   
   attempt to run for the secretary of state's office during the   
   June primary is signed by Peters and notarized on July 12 in   
   Nevada, according to the DA. Investigators verified the date and   
   location of the notarization, a violation of Peters' bail.   
      
   Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office told CNN it   
   received the notarized letter from Peters on Thursday morning.   
   In a motion to quash the arrest warrant filed Thursday   
   afternoon, Peters' attorney, Harvey Steinberg, said he had been   
   out of the office Monday, when the court imposed new   
   restrictions on Peters' out-of-state travel, "and did not see it   
   until later." Steinberg said he had failed to notify Peters of   
   the restrictions "until it was too late," and -- though Peters   
   had told Steinberg about her travel plans -- he failed to pass   
   those plans on to the court.   
      
   Steinberg said in the motion that Peters' July 7 email with her   
   travel details was "part of an email thread, and it was not   
   noticed that she had provided her plans to travel to Las Vegas   
   on July 12, 2022."   
      
   "Ms. Peters simply did not know that she was prohibited from   
   traveling to Las Vegas, and her conduct proves it," Steinberg   
   wrote.   
      
   "She publicly appeared with law enforcement officers in Las   
   Vegas, and she livestreamed her appearance for everyone to see.   
   If she knew that the Court prohibited her travel, she would not   
   have publicized that she was in Las Vegas," he said in the   
   motion. "Further, Ms. Peters told her bondsman that she was   
   going to Las Vegas before she left. If she were knowingly   
   violating bond conditions, she certainly would not have told him   
   her plans."   
      
   Steinberg asked the court for a hearing via WebEx on the matter.   
      
   It's the latest in a series of legal battles for Peters, who has   
   emerged as a prominent figure on the far right in Colorado after   
   espousing former President Donald Trump's lies about widespread   
   voter fraud in the 2020 election.   
      
   Peters last month sought the Republican nomination for Colorado   
   secretary of state -- a position that would have allowed her to   
   take over the election machinery in a state that conducts its   
   elections by mail, a process she has baselessly claimed is rife   
   with fraud and said she wants to scrap.   
      
   But Republicans rejected Peters' bid, instead nominating Pam   
   Anderson, a former county clerk who has defended the integrity   
   of Colorado's elections and ran as someone competent to manage   
   that process.   
      
   Additionally, Peters was indicted by a grand jury after   
   prosecutors said Peters and her deputies facilitated a security   
   breach in May 2021.The breach resulted in confidential voting   
   machine logins, and forensic images of their hard drives, being   
   published in a QAnon-affiliated Telegram channel in early August   
   2021. She pleaded not guilty and was not allowed to travel out   
   of state without permission from the court.   
      
   In May, after a lawsuit brought by Griswold -- a separate legal   
   proceeding -- a district judge stripped Peters of her duties   
   overseeing this year's elections in Mesa County.   
      
   Peters has aligned herself with far-right figures who have   
   advanced Trump's lies about widespread election fraud. She   
   appeared at the "Cyber Symposium," a gathering of election   
   deniers last year in which a host of debunked conspiracy   
   theories about the 2020 election were promoted, and in Colorado   
      
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