{"id":1712,"date":"2026-06-01T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:34:37","slug":"colorado-elections-clerk-released-from-pueblo-prison-after-gov-polis-commutes-her-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Colorado elections clerk released from Pueblo prison after Gov. Polis commutes her sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><p><strong>DENVER<\/strong>  | Tina Peters, the former clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to chase election conspiracy theories promulgated by President Donald Trump, was released from prison Monday after the president successfully pressured Colorado\u2019s Democratic governor into commuting her sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Governor\u2019s grant of clemency to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the people of Colorado, and election officials across the country,\u201d Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a statement. \u201cIt sends a dangerous message about accountability for those who would attack elections. Peters\u2019 release also will embolden the election denial movement; since the grant of clemency, she has continued to spread election falsehoods and conspiracies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peters\u2019 release was confirmed by the Colorado Department of Corrections. The state agency said it would have no more information about the 70-year-old inmate. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Released on parole, her parole agreement was not made public at press time.<\/p>\n<p>Her sentence was shortened by Gov. Jared Polis last month after Trump waged a lengthy pressure campaign against the governor and his state.<\/p>\n<p>Peters served less than a quarter of her nine-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell \u2014 who himself denied that Trump lost the White House in 2020 \u2014 and the person copied the county\u2019s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Peters then joined Lindell onstage at a \u201ccybersymposium\u201d that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had championed Peters\u2019 case, but because she was convicted under state law, he did not have the power to pardon her. Instead, the president pressured Polis to do so, lambasting him on social media and disinviting him to a White House meeting with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado and relocated the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>Polis commuted Peters\u2019 sentence on May 15. In a letter, he wrote that although Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison, the sentence was \u201cextremely unusual and lengthy\u201d for a first-time non-violent offender.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1707\">MONDAY NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in today\u2019s NewsMinute video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1708\">Trump fumes after judge throws out Kennedy Center renovation plan, name change<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1710\">POLMAN: Conservatives used to preach good morals. Now they splash in the sewer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER | Tina Peters, the former clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to chase election conspiracy theories promulgated by President Donald Trump, was released from prison Monday after the president successfully pressured Colorado\u2019s Democratic governor into commuting her sentence. \u201cThe Governor\u2019s grant of clemency to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,1094,1095,1096,2649,258,262,1729],"tags":[2650,2651,116,1684,252,496],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0recent-headlines","category-0trending","category-1gridhome","category-1gridstate","category-colorado-capitol","category-colorado-news","category-state-and-region","category-z-metro-galley","tag-dominion-voting-systems","tag-election-conspiracy-theories","tag-gov-jared-polis","tag-mike-lindell","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-tina-peters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Colorado elections clerk released from Pueblo prison after Gov. 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