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“Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, the former Republican county clerk who was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for her role in allowing unauthorized access to her county’s election equipment in an attempt to uncover election fraud.
“Polis, a Democrat, commuted her sentence to four-and-a-half years and said she would be eligible for parole next month. Before Polis’ commutation, Peters’ earliest parole date would have been March 2028.
“Peters has been serving her sentence since April 16, 2025, at a prison in Pueblo after being convicted in 2024 by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported President Donald Trump.
“Peters snuck in an outside computer expert, an associate of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, to make a copy of her county’s Dominion Voting Systems election computer server as state officials updated it in 2021. After Peters joined Lindell onstage at a ‘cybersymposium’ that promised to reveal proof of election rigging, video and photos of the upgrade, including passwords, were posted online.
“Based on Colorado law, a sentence like Peters received is cut in half, so a 4 1/2 year sentence is really 2 1/4 years. She is also eligible for time off for good behavior, which is a maximum of 12 days credited each month.
“The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out Peters’ sentence in April but upheld her convictions. Democrats in the state legislature were told Polis would wait to act on Peters’ clemency until the appeals court decision. The appeals court sent back her case to Mesa County District Court for Peters to be resentenced because they said the sentence was based, in part, on improper consideration of her right to exercise free speech during her trial.
“Polis acted before that district court resentencing. …
“In March, Kyle Giddings [Leading with Conviction™ 2024], deputy director of the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, said he worried about the message a commutation for Peters would send to other [incarcerated people] seeking clemency.
“‘There are so many folks who are currently incarcerated that are doing the work to turn their lives around,’ Gidding said. ‘Tina Peters getting clemency and jumping the line in front of all these people … sets a precedent that I just can’t imagine.’”
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