Last Friday, Polis reduced Tina Peters’ nine-year sentence, saying that her term was disproportionate to the crime.
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May 21, 2026, 6:32 AM GMT+2
By Casey Wooten
Colorado Democrats on Wednesday voted to censure Gov. Jared Polis, a fellow Democrat, over his commutation last week of Tina Peters, an election denier who had been serving nine years in state prison for tampering with voting systems.
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