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.”
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