The strongest official baseline is the Colorado Secretary of State's 2021-08-17 Mesa County release, which documents a non-employee being authorized for the trusted build, the limited approved attendee list, noncontinuous video surveillance, and release of hard-drive images. That official release does not name Bishop. Bishop enters the Mesa County record through reporting, trial coverage, public statements, and later legal / media disputes.
The current repo supports describing Bishop as an organizer / associate in the Mesa County election-denial network around Tina Peters, Douglas Frank, USEIP canvassing, and Mike Lindell. It also supports saying prosecutors and trial reporting described her as having an integral role in the scheme and as an unindicted co-conspirator. It does not support saying Bishop was convicted or charged in the Peters state criminal case. Colorado Newsline reported on 2026-04-02 that the Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed Peters's convictions but reversed the sentence and remanded for resentencing; that updates the Peters case posture without changing Bishop's direct legal status in the retained record.
Colorado Secretary of State's 2021-08-17 release supports these official facts:
2021-05-25 trusted build, which the office characterized as a violation of Election Rule 20.5.4.2021-08-09.This official release is useful for the breach mechanics, but it does not establish Bishop's involvement.
Colorado Times Recorder reported that Bishop invited Douglas Frank to Colorado and organized the April 2021 Grand Junction event. CTR and The New Yorker both connect Bishop to Frank's post-2020 election-fraud theory and to local canvassing or phantom voter narratives. The New Yorker reports that the plan Frank developed with Tina Peters and Bishop centered on the planned trusted build.
Colorado Newsline trial reporting adds a court-context layer: trial testimony placed Bishop in an April 2021 meeting with Peters, Mesa County election staff, Douglas Frank, Sandra Brown, Belinda Knisley, and Maurice Emmer, and reported that prosecutors played a secret recording of that meeting.
Colorado Times Recorder reported that Bishop and USEIP organized Douglas Frank presentations and that Cory Anderson described Western Slope canvassing at a Bishop-posted presentation. CTR also reported that Bishop introduced Anderson as security and a trainer for the voter-integrity project. Bishop's own America's Mom site later linked USEIP canvassing materials in a post promoting Mesa County forensic-report claims.
The safest current formulation is: Bishop publicly promoted and helped organize post-2020 election-integrity / election-denial activity in Colorado that included Douglas Frank presentations, USEIP canvassing, and Mesa County-related claims. Whether each action was formal employment, volunteer organizing, media promotion, or informal collaboration must be specified source-by-source.
Colorado Newsline and CTR trial coverage report that prosecutors described Bishop as having an integral role in orchestrating a scheme to let Conan Hayes into Mesa County's secure election area under Gerald Wood's identity. The same reporting says Bishop testified for the defense and that prosecutors disputed her account.
Important distinctions:
2026 that Peters's convictions were affirmed on appeal while the sentence was reversed and remanded for resentencing.Existing repo captures and The New Yorker report that FBI agents searched Bishop's home on 2021-11-16 in connection with the Mesa County election-security investigation. The America's Mom site includes Bishop's own first-person account of that search. CTR reported contemporaneous statements from Tina Peters / Mike Lindell identifying Bishop's home as one of the searched locations.
CTR's Lindell-phone reporting says a search warrant named Bishop, Lindell, Frank, Peters, Knisley, Brown, and Hayes in connection with the investigation and reported that DOJ described them as co-conspirators in alleged charges related to copying and theft of Mesa election data. This remains reporting-level evidence until the warrant or affidavit is retained.
The current repo supports several distinct Lindell ties:
2021, according to CTR reporting.America's Mom live site points to FrankSpeech for latest episodes.America's Mom site linked lindelllegalfund.org in a Mesa County forensic-report post.2025 that Lindell identified Bishop as executive director of the Lindell Offense Fund, while also saying she did not control distributions.The safest current relationship labels are media-platform affiliation, event co-appearance, election-integrity collaborator, and reported Lindell Offense Fund executive director, each with source/date attribution.
2025 public dispute and should not be adopted as repo voice.2021-11-16 Bishop home search