Colorado governor commutes sentence of election denier Tina Peters

Former election clerk who allowed unauthorized access to voting systems was convicted and sentenced to nine years

The Colorado governor, Jared Polis, commuted the nearly nine-year prison sentence of a former Colorado clerk who allowed unauthorized people to access her county’s voting systems in a case that had been an intense focus of Donald Trump and other allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election.

Tina Peters, who is currently incarcerated, will be released on parole on 1 June after Polis reduced her sentence from eight and a half years in prison to about four and a half. “This is an extremely unusual and lengthy sentence for a first time offender who committed non-violent crimes,” Polis wrote in a clemency letter to Peters.

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15 thoughts on “Colorado governor commutes sentence of election denier Tina Peters

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  4. Reading that tina Peters, who is currently incarcerated, will be released on parole on 1 June after Polis reduced her sentence from eight and a half years in prison to about four and a half — hard to argue with the logic there.

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  7. In other words former election clerk who allowed unauthorized access to voting systems was convicted and sentenced to nine. Curious to see how this develops.

  8. In other words tina Peters, who is currently incarcerated, will be released on parole on 1 June after Polis reduced her sentence from eight and a half years in prison to about four and a half. Curious to see how this develops.

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