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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) said he’s considering clemency for Tina Peters, the former election official serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system breach.
The president has denied funding and even launched a federal investigation over Peters’ incarceration.
Peters’ lawyer suggests she might even appeal her case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has reiterated that he would not release Peters.
This week, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) broke new ground in its dangerous campaign to take control of elections and promote baseless conspiracy theories about voting. And we tracked them every step of the way.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.
DOJ didn’t explicitly say the probe was related to Tina Peters, but far-right activists are saying the quiet part out loud.
“The DOJ can take a hike; it does not have a legal right to the information.”
Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
The Trump Administration is ignoring a request from the top election officials in 10 states asking for more information on how the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intends to use the state voter data they’ve demanded.