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Sam Levine in New York

Colorado governor likely to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters, lawyer says

a woman wearing a black shirt, white coat and button that says 'Tina Peters' smiles
Tina Peters at an event in Hudson, Colorado, in 2023. Photograph: David Zalubowski/AP

A lawyer representing Tina Peters said he expects the Democratic Colorado governor Jared Polis to commute her nine-year prison sentence, a move that could release the only person serving a sentence related to trying to overturn the 2020 election from prison.

Peters was the county clerk in western Colorado’s Mesa county in 2020 and allowed an unauthorized person to use a security badge and access her county’s voting equipment. Passwords and other sensitive information related to the county’s election equipment later became public and was used by election deniers to try to question the 2020 election results.

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