Colorado secretary of state urges governor not to pardon Tina Peters
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) is urging Gov. Jared Polis (D) not to pardon Tina Peters, amid an intense pressure campaign led by President Donald Trump to free the convicted election denier.
Peters, a former GOP county clerk, is serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system breach.
“Tina Peters granted unauthorized access to [voting] equipment and placed the security of Mesa County’s elections, and all of our elections, at risk,” Griswold said in an interview with Democracy Docket. “Her actions have been used to spread countless conspiracies and incite countless threats against election officials here in Colorado and across the country. She was found guilty by a jury of her peers in a conservative county where she’s from. And she is one of the only people in the entire country who is still facing accountability for attacking American elections.”
On Tuesday, Griswold, along with two Republican leaders of the Colorado County Clerks Association, sent a letter to Polis asking him to not pardon or commute Peters’ sentence, warning the governor that a pardon could further embolden far-right election deniers, putting election workers and future elections at risk.
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