Vicki Stuart, a 64-year-old former postal worker in Colorado, pleaded guilty Monday after she and a friend were accused of stealing over a dozen ballots mailed out to Mesa County residents, then casting them in the 2024 general election.

Stuart had faced 34 counts related to the ballot theft scheme in which at least 16 victims had their ballots stolen. Stuart reportedly stole the ballots as part of a plan to "test" the security of Colorado’s mail ballot system.

“I feel like I am guilty for the part that I played in it," she said when asked by the judge why she was accepting the plea deal, according to Colorado Public Radio News.

Stuart pleaded guilty to just one count of identity theft and one count of forgery.

Former Colorado postal employee admits to stealing ballots ahead of 2024 election https://t.co/IR8SybnKox

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 6, 2025

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Colorado seems to have failed what was described as a "test" of the system. According to CPR, she told authorities that they wanted "to see whether they would get caught if the signatures didn’t match."

Three ballots illegally submitted in the scheme passed the signature verification process and were cast. That is just shy of 19% of the votes that made it through in this case.

Stuart and the other woman charged in the case, Sally Jane Maxedone, were only caught when the Colorado Ballot tracking system alerted some of the voters that their ballots were being processed despite not having received them.

Maxedone is set for a review hearing on Thursday. It is unclear if she intends to accept a plea deal as well.

But I have it on good authority that this kind of thing doesn't ever happen.

— Kurt Fagerburg (@kurtfagerburg) May 6, 2025

This past October, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office inadvertently posted a spreadsheet containing voting system passwords on its public website. The incident raised concerns about election security just days before the 2024 election. 

The breach, which exposed partial passwords for systems in numerous counties throughout the state, prompted immediate action to reset passwords, with officials asserting no intentional threat to the election process.

Signature verification on mail in ballots isn’t working. Easily missed and ballots counted. But Colorado Senators @SenatorHick @SenatorBennet voted NO on SAVE ACT ignoring real problems, deceiving voters, ultimately accepting fraud. Real change needed. VOTE THEM OUT, Nov 2026! https://t.co/iNYosKbsNI

— Sunshinemilehigh (@Sunshinemilehi) May 6, 2025

Meanwhile, Mesa County is where former County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for allowing unauthorized access to voting systems in an attempt to prove claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

President Trump announced Monday he is directing the U.S. Department of Justice to work on securing Peters' release.

“Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American,” he wrote in a Truth Social post.

Stuart is due back in court on June 25th for sentencing. RedState will keep you posted on any developments.

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