Tina Peters, a former Mesa County Clerk, reignited her election-rigging narrative just hours after being released from prison in Colorado, where she was serving a nine-year sentence for election interference in 2020.Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) commuted Peters’s sentence at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo last month following public pressure from President Donald Trump. Peters was released Monday afternoon after serving 19 months.Peters appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast shortly after her release and, without proof, claimed that Democrats are “going to cheat” in the 2026 midterm elections.
“I know that the Democrats are going to cheat, and no one’s really addressing the problem that I spent my time in prison as retribution for, and that was exposing the election machines that allow the votes to be flipped,” Peters said.
Peters said she still “has a fight to go” and said she will “bring out the truth of why they came after me the way they did” to clear her name. She previously wrote a letter to Trump requesting a presidential pardon, but Peters could not be granted a presidential pardon because she was convicted on state charges.
Peters, 70, said she plans to spend the next few weeks “regaining” her health. While in prison, Peters’s attorney had requested she be transferred to “a safe unit” after she had been threatened on multiple occasions. During her interview on Monday, she referred to spending time in solitary confinement.
