Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold is once again suing to stop Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from overseeing the election, this time for 2022. Last week, Griswold, a Democrat, said Peters, a Republican, could return to her duties only if she agreed to certify documents with new election security protocols that would have restricted her authority and required her to repudiate a statement she made about getting “those machines so that they are transparent to the people and they are not able to do what they’re designed to do.” But Peters refused, her legal defense fund calling the protocols a “gag order,” and instead announced her intent to run for re-election.