Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters is asking the state appeals court to recognize President Donald Trump’s pardon of her state convictions as valid

Tina Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who has been at the center of a political fight between President Trump and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D), is asking a state appeals court to recognize the president’s pardon of her state convictions.

President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

President Donald Trump has issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado elections administrator convicted of a data breach scheme tied to false claims of election fraud

Election-denier Tina Peters calls for Trump pardon to be recognized - Tina Peters’ lawyers are demanding her release from prison after Trump’s pardon earlier this month

Peters was convicted of state crimes for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

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The real threat to election integrity got comparatively fewer headlines back in November when one out of three of the Arapahoe County Canvass Board refused to certify the results of the 2025

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Trump granted a full pardon to Tina Peters, former clerk of Mesa County, who was sentenced to prison for "demanding Honest Elections."