{"id":837024,"date":"2026-06-01T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/837024\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:59:14","slug":"elections-conspiracy-theorist-tina-peters-to-be-freed-from-prison-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/837024\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections conspiracy theorist Tina Peters to be freed from prison early"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER (AP) \u2014 Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters<\/a> is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence for her role in a scheme to copy her county\u2019s election system. <\/p>\n

Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters\u2019 sentence<\/a> last month following pressure from President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

The Colorado Department of Corrections would not confirm the time of Peters\u2019 release, and a representative for her attorney said Peters would not speak to the media when she is freed. <\/p>\n

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<\/a> in 2020 \u2014 and the person copied the county\u2019s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.<\/p>\n

Peters then joined Lindell<\/a> 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<\/a> that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election<\/a> from Trump. <\/p>\n

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

Trump had championed Peters\u2019 case, but because the 70-year-old 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<\/a> with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research<\/a> in Colorado and relocated<\/a> the U.S. Space Command to Alabama. <\/p>\n

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

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the move a \u201cdark day for democracy\u201d and said it amounted to \u201dselling out our state\u2019s justice system for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":837025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[92,7373,13672,4439,69,90,57,15320,90048,362,99106,50,130635,80,2938,192347,89,61,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-837024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-2020-united-states-presidential-election","tag-2026-elections","tag-co-state-wire","tag-colorado","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-jared-polis","tag-law-and-order","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-mike-lindell","tag-news","tag-pardons-and-commutations","tag-politics","tag-prisons","tag-tina-peters","tag-u-s-democratic-party","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116675449045266461","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}