Colorado governor cuts Tina Peters sentence in half (opens in new tab)

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ state prison sentence for a 2021 election-system breach, making her eligible for parole release on June 1, 2026. Polis reduced Peters’ nearly nine-year sentence to four years and four and a half months. Peters had been serving time after her 2024 conviction tied to unauthorized access to voting equipment after the 2020 election. Polis said Peters committed a crime but called the original sentence unusually long for a fir...