Yvonne Winget Sanchez
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And that sort of set her off on this odyssey to try to prove that the machines, the voting equipment that were under her control in the 2020 election were somehow rigged and that votes could be changed.
In doing so, she ended up in quite a bit of hot water.
Local authorities said that she deceived her own colleagues and allowed a person to gain unauthorized access to the machines.
And in the end, she was convicted of breaking the law and she was sent to prison.
And so in the absence of any action to get her out, to break her out of state prison, the president has directed the Department of Justice to do anything that they can do to try to get her out.
And that has happened.
It's all been unsuccessful.
I talk to a lot of Republicans even who feel like, you know, as one person told me, you do the crime, you do the time.
And she did the crime.
And she's not just undermining elections here in our county, but she's really testing the
the state and county's legal authority to enforce our own laws.
A jury of our peers in a heavily Republican area decided that she was guilty of seven counts and that she should go to prison.