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
— Ashe in America (@AsheinAmerica) May 15, 2026
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.
Let me start off by saying I will give as much time as needed for Matt Crane and the Colorado Clerks Association to respond to Col. Smith’s claims on this podcast!! My DMs are open to schedule a rebuttal.
Last week on Why We Vote, @ShawnSmith1776 joined @AsheinAmerica… pic.twitter.com/z8VPsup6kV
— CannCon (@canncon) October 26, 2025
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.
Griswold: This sends a message to Trump’s followers that if they break the law, well, they might get off just fine. This sends a message to Donald Trump that if he retaliates hard enough, he’ll be able to get a state to do his bidding. And this tells election officials that… pic.twitter.com/ppT87bUv18
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 16, 2026
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:
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