Colorado Gov. Commutes Sentence of Former County Clerk Sentenced to Jail for Election Tampering

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former clerk for the state’s Mesa County, after she was sentenced to serve nine years in prison in October 2024 for allowing an outsider to have access to the election system.

While Polis explained that he felt Peters had been “given an usually harsh sentence,” he clarified that she had broken the law, the New York Times reported. The governor shared that Peters will be released from prison on parole at the beginning of June.

“She committed a crime; she deserves to be a convicted felon,” Polis told reporters.

Prior to Polis’s decision, he shared that he would need to “see an expression of remorse from Ms. Peters.” The governor recently shared that Peters had expressed remorse for her action of allowing “an outsider to gain access to voting machines under her control.”

Breitbart News’s Paul Bois reported