Tina Peters Plans Supreme Court Appeal After Prison Release

Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters' legal battle is continuing after her June release from prison, with her attorney preparing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her criminal convictions stemming from a 2021 breach of county election equipment, Nexstar's KDVR reported.

Attorney Peter Ticktin said his legal team is working toward a December filing deadline after the Colorado Supreme Court declined to review Peters' appeal.

Peters was convicted in August 2024 on seven criminal counts related to the breach, in which prosecutors said she helped an unauthorized person gain access to Mesa County's voting equipment during a software update.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, later commuted her prison sentence, but the convictions remain in place.

Ticktin said that Peters was trying to preserve election records she believed could be lost during the software update and was acting to comply with federal election-record retention requirements. ---More...

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“You are no hero. You abused your position, and you’re a charlatan,” Judge Matthew Barrett told former election official Tina Peters.

She was convicted in a scheme to breach the very voting system she swore to protect. She was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison.

Peters says she was trying to protect election data.