Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk and recorder who was given a draconian sentence in 2024 after allowing an individual unauthorized access to certain parts of the county’s election systems, was granted clemency by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, on Friday afternoon.
The 70-year-old Peters will be released from prison on June 1, The Associated Press reported.
The move comes after a Colorado appeals court upheld her data breach conviction last month but found that the sentencing of Peters violated her First Amendment rights because the judge took her political beliefs into account.
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Peters was indicted in 2022 on 10 counts, both felonies and misdemeanor, after she allowed another election integrity activist to access secure areas of the county’s election system in an attempt to find if fraud had been perpetrated in the 2020 election.
The judge at her sentencing, District Judge Matthew Barrett, made explicit reference
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