DENVER, Colo. (AP) 鈥� Former Colorado elections clerk and is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence for her role in a scheme to copy her county’s election system.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted last month following pressure from President Donald Trump.
The Colorado Department of Corrections would not confirm the time of Peters鈥� release, and a representative for her attorney said Peters would not speak to the media when she is freed.
Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell 鈥� who himself in 2020 鈥� and the person copied the county’s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.
Peters then joined onstage at a 鈥渃ybersymposium鈥� that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked that voting machines were manipulated to steal from Trump.
Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.
Trump had championed Peters’ case, but because the 70-year-old was convicted under state law, he did not have the power to pardon her. Instead, the president pressured Polis to do so, lambasting him on social media and disinviting him to a with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the in Colorado and the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.
Polis commuted Peters’ sentence on May 15. In a letter, he wrote that although Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison, the sentence was 鈥渆xtremely unusual and lengthy鈥� for a first-time non-violent offender.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the move a 鈥渄ark day for democracy鈥� and said it amounted to 鈥漵elling out our state鈥檚 justice system for Trump.鈥�
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