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Rachel Leingang

US justice department to review conviction of former election clerk

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Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party on 28 June 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. Photograph: Marc Piscotty/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s justice department said it will review the Colorado conviction of former election clerk Tina Peters, who received a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a voting system data-breach scheme as part of an unsuccessful quest to find voter fraud in 2021.

Yaakov Roth, an acting assistant attorney general, wrote in a court filing on Monday that the Department of Justice was “reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process”, including Peters’.

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