ELECTION FELON TINA PETERS TO STAY IN STATE PRISON

The Colorado Department of Corrections has not received a request from the federal Bureau of Prisons to move Tina Peters from state prison into a federal facility, despite reported calls from advocates and government officials to do so, according to Colorado Newsline.

Peters, the former Republican clerk for Mesa County, was found guilty last year on state charges for orchestrating a plan to breach her office’s secure election systems in order to find evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. She was sentenced to nine years in prison and is incarcerated in a state facility in Pueblo.

Since then, right-wing political figures have repeatedly called for her release. Most recently, that included Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who appealed to President Donald Trump on X to “free Tina Peters” following the president’s pardons over the weekend to dozens of people connected to the effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Ed Martin, the U.S. pardon attorney, replied “We are working on it!” to a Sunday night post on X about Peters and her potential release. The president can only issue pardons, however, to people with federal convictions.

Corrections department spokesperson Alondra Gonzalez told Newsline any transfer of someone incarcerated in a state prison to another jurisdiction is initiated by the state, not an outside entity.

[Photo: Colorado Department of Corrections]