President Donald Trump on Thursday said he granted "a full Pardon" to election denier Tina Peters who was convicted for helping outsiders illegally breach voting machine security.

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

President Donald Trump is attempting to claim that he is pardoning Tina Peters, who was sentenced to nine years on state level charges for election tampering.

The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

Former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters was convicted in 2024 on state charges for her role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

The Trump administration wants driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of social security numbers for all of Colorado’s registered voters, and on Thursday, they sued the Colorado Secretary of State to get it.

President Donald Trump said late on Dec. 11 that he had issued a pardon for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of orchestrating a scheme to breach secure election equipment, though Colorado officials and legal experts immediately countered that the president’s broad pardon powers don’t extend to state-level crimes like those committed by

Most of Colorado’s independent voters distrust both major political parties and want Republicans and Democrats to be more moderate. They are most concerned about the cost of living and housing, followed by taxes and budget, and politics and polarization.

A federal magistrate judge has rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.