{"id":68115,"date":"2026-03-04T19:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/colorado-governor-likely-to-grant-clemency-to-election-denier-tina-peters-lawyer-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T19:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:01:21","slug":"colorado-governor-likely-to-grant-clemency-to-election-denier-tina-peters-lawyer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/colorado-governor-likely-to-grant-clemency-to-election-denier-tina-peters-lawyer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado governor likely to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters, lawyer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer for Peters says he expects Jared Polis to commute nine-year sentence over voting breach in 2020 election<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer representing Tina Peters said he expects the Democratic<strong> <\/strong>Colorado governor Jared Polis to commute her nine-year prison sentence, a move that could release the only person serving a sentence related to trying to overturn the 2020 election from prison.<\/p>\n<p>Peters was the county clerk in western Colorado\u2019s Mesa county in 2020 and allowed an unauthorized person to use a security badge and access her county\u2019s voting equipment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/tina-peters-election-conspiracy-theories.html\">Passwords<\/a> and other sensitive information related to the county\u2019s election equipment later became public and was used by election deniers to try and question the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/colorado-governor-tina-peters-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer for Peters says he expects Jared Polis to commute nine-year sentence over voting breach in 2020 election A lawyer representing Tina Peters said he expects the Democratic Colorado governor Jared Polis to commute her nine-year prison sentence, a move that could release the only person serving a sentence related to trying to overturn the &#8230; <a title=\"Colorado governor likely to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters, lawyer says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/colorado-governor-likely-to-grant-clemency-to-election-denier-tina-peters-lawyer-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Colorado governor likely to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters, lawyer says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}