Trump said on Thursday he is pardoning Tina Peters, a Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 presidential election, despite lacking the authority to grant such a pardon.
Peters was sentenced in Colorado state court in 2024 to nine years in prison after she was convicted at trial of seven counts of engaging in a security breach, which occurred when she opened Mesa County, Colorado’s election computers to Trump allies.
Peters, who was well-known for supporting Trump’s unfounded claims of widespread election fraud, was indicted in 2022 following the breach at her office, which led to voting equipment passwords being posted on a right-wing blog.
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