Overview
- Every Democrat in the Colorado legislature signed a letter urging the governor not to reduce Peters’ nine-year sentence, warning clemency would hand election deniers a rallying figure.
- Tina Peters, 70, was convicted in 2024 for allowing a 2021 breach of Mesa County election equipment and is serving her term at a women’s prison in Pueblo.
- Polis has said he is considering a commutation rather than a pardon and has cited concerns about sentencing disparities, pointing to the lighter sentence for former Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis.
- The Colorado Court of Appeals is reviewing the sentence after judges questioned aspects of the rationale in a January hearing, with a ruling expected in the coming weeks.
- President Trump has pressed for Peters’ release and issued a symbolic pardon that has no legal effect on her state conviction, while Democrats say she shows no remorse and her attorney says she does.