The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that Tina Peters should finally be released on June 1.  Governor Jared Polis cut her sentence in half, and, according to the governor’s office, she will be released at the start of next month after spending almost two years in the Colorado state prison system.

Peters released a statement yesterday, acknowledging the clemency grant and expressing a desire to continue the fight for election integrity, but also to reform the corrections process she has suffered in.

Almost immediately, political adversaries decried the governor’s decision on social media and in the Mockingbird media.

Secretary of State Jena Griswold, whose office recklessly published the BIOS passwords for the State’s Dominion tabulators in almost every jurisdiction for six months on her office’s website before the 2024 election, released a statement, calling the clemency “an affront to our democracy.”

Griswold wrote in a statement:

“This clemency grant to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the people of Colorado, and election officials across the country.  The Governor’s actions today validate and embolden the election denial movement, and leave a dark, dangerous imprint on American democracy for years to come.”

Jena and Matt are furious. This is such a great day! https://t.co/2P67LFcxrw pic.twitter.com/rQYQ5sKmlj

The Colorado County Clerks Association (CCCA), a non-governmental body that influences elected officials’ decision-making, released a statement saying it is “furious, disgusted, and deeply disappointed” with Governor Polis’s decision.

The same NGO issued a report last October “debunking” the Mesa Reports that resulted in the forensic image permitted by Peters, then the Mesa County Clerk.  The Gateway Pundit reported on an interview conducted with Colonel Shawn Smith (USAF ret’d) that obliterated the organization’s “debunking.”

The wife of Matt Crane, the leader of the CCCA, previously worked for Dominion Voting Systems, the election software deployed throughout most of Colorado.

 

Griswold, who is running for Attorney General of Colorado in the 2026 midterms, joined CNN last night to vent her frustrations.  While Griswold does mention the Colorado Appeals Court’s decision to order a new sentencing in Peters’ case, the Secretary failed to mention a Colorado state senator, Sonya Jacquez Lewis, who was convicted of the same exact felony as Peters but only sentenced to probation and community service, while Peters, a gold star mother with no prior convictions, was given almost a decade in prison.

In Lewis’s case, she submitted three separate forged letters to a five-member Senate ethics panel.  Rather than charging her with a felony for each forged letter, they consolidated it into a single felony count.  In Peters’s case, however, she was alleged to have made a single misrepresentation to three public servants and was charged with a separate felony for each person, despite the misrepresentations being identical.

WATCH: Colorado Appellate Court Judges Eviscerate Colorado’s Case Against Tina Peters’ in Appeals Hearing

 

Several other politicians and commentators have chimed in on the gross injustice that was slammed on the gold star mother of a Navy SEAL with no prior convictions, who was condemned to spend the rest of her life essentially in jail for preserving election records in accordance with federal law:

Tina Peters, an election denier, faces clemency after admitting to a mistake, as announced by Colorado's Democratic governor.

Senator John Hickenlooper criticizes the potential reduction of Tina Peters' sentence, emphasizing the importance of maintaining trust in Colorado's electoral integrity.

Colorado governor grants clemency to election denier Tina Peters, reducing her sentence amid public protests and political controversy.

Michael Bennet expresses strong disagreement with Governor Jared Polis's decision to commute Tina Peters' sentence in a video statement.

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