AS WIND BLOWS: COLORADO CONSIDERS FREEING TINA PETERS, OTHER 'ELDERLY' INMATES

In an abrupt about-face, Colorado Governor Jared Polis is contemplating freeing disgraced Mesa County election official Tina Peters and other aged inmates locked in the state's prisons.

Peters, 70, a pro-Trump Republican and ousted county clerk, received a "harsh" sentence for tampering in the 2020 presidential vote, Polis told CBS Denver. "It was a 9-year sentence. So, we always look at people's sentences," he said.

"And when you have people that are elderly, and we're looking at this across a number of many people - people in their 70s or 80s in our system - how much of a threat to society are they and how do we balance that in a way that makes sure they can spend their last year few years at home," the governor said. 

The White House this year issued a pardon for Peters - but such presidential action doesn't apply to laws of the states. Peters is accused of tampering with results of the election in which Joe Biden ousted Donald Trump.

Trump lost in Colorado and the Mesa County vote she tried to fix wasn't enough to make a difference anyway. He lost Colorado in 2o24, too.

Separately, as reported earlier by the Daily Sketch, Colorado's attorney general, Phil Weiser, assailed the White House for withholding federal funds for the state because it has - so far - refused to free Peters.

[Photo: Colorado Department of Corrections]