{"id":1093,"date":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:40:05","slug":"colorado-governor-commutes-sentence-of-election-denier-tina-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Colorado governor commutes sentence of election denier Tina Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former election clerk who allowed unauthorized access to voting systems was convicted and sentenced to nine years <\/p>\n<p>The Colorado governor, Jared Polis, commuted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/aug\/13\/tina-peters-guilty-colorado-2020-election-denier\">nearly nine-year prison sentence<\/a> of a former Colorado clerk who allowed unauthorized people to access her county\u2019s voting systems in a case that had been an intense focus of Donald Trump and other allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Tina Peters, who is currently incarcerated, will be released on parole on 1 June after Polis reduced her sentence from eight and a half years in prison to about four and a half. \u201cThis is an extremely unusual and lengthy sentence for a first time offender who committed non-violent crimes,\u201d Polis wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1VFOCqWA-BgHGxTAWQz_QrhvtNXbknOjg\/view\">clemency letter<\/a> to Peters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/colorado-governor-tina-peters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former election clerk who allowed unauthorized access to voting systems was convicted and sentenced to nine years The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}