Every Democrat in Colorado Legislature Signs Letter Urging Gov. Polis Not to Grant Clemency to Tina Peters
Source: MEDIAite
Mar 11th, 2026, 9:05 pm
Every single Democrat in the Colorado legislature signed a letter urging Gov. Jared Polis (D) not to grant clemency to Tina Peters, the former county election clerk currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for crimes she committed as part of the effort to support President Donald Trump’s claims of fraud during the 2020 election.
Prosecutors accused Peters, a staunch Trump supporter who served as the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, of allowing an unauthorized person — later discovered to be affiliated with MyPillow founder and fellow election conspiracy monger Mike Lindell — to access and tamper with the county election equipment, breaking into the voting machines under her supervision and copying data that was later leaked online.
In October 2024, she was convicted on seven charges, some of which were felonies, including three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, official misconduct, violation of duty, and failure to comply with an order of the secretary of state. Trump has furiously denounced Peters’ conviction and prison sentence and called for her release, even issuing a statement purporting to pardon her. Presidents can only issue pardons or clemency for federal crimes and this was legally ineffective against the charges brought by the state of Colorado against Peters.
Despite Trump’s repeated accusations that Peters had been “persecuted” by “Radical Left Democrats,” Dan Rubinstein, the District Attorney who prosecuted her, is a Republican. In January, Polis said he was considering granting clemency because of Peters’ age and the length of her sentence, and then expressed support for considering it again in early March. He also compared her sentence to former state senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis, who was convicted of similar charges and expressed concerns about “sentencing disparities.”
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/every-democrat-in-colorado-legislature-signs-letter-urging-gov-polis-not-to-grant-clemency-to-tina-peters/
OFFS. THAT case has ABSOLUTELY NO comparison to the election tampering that Peters' helped for facilitate AND her refusal to acknowledge her wrong-doing, let alone continued insistence on a "stolen 2020 election", while belligerently expressing ZERO remorse, and pissing judges off at the same time.
Info on the Lewis case - https://www.denverda.org/news-release/denver-judge-sentences-former-state-senator-sonya-jaquez-lewis/
(she was apparently mistreating her staff and when called out on it, forged documents to deny it)
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I seriously doubt it.... but Tina Peters based her entire defense on that chimera. Maybe Gov. Polis can shorten her sentence by a few months or a year, but don't give her clemency. She's guilty as hell, and probably lying about most of it.
I cannot believe he's even giving this thought!! 
Edit to add we try so hard to get these bastards on state charges, and then our democratic Governors consider releasing them? Unexplainable. This burns me so much!!!
