Trump Labels Colorado Clerk “Sick” Prisoner After 2-Year Sentence in Voting Machine Case

In a Wednesday post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump renewed his appeal for former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters, describing her as “sick” while imprisoned following what he has characterized as a politically motivated conviction over a 2021 voting machine breach.

Trump also criticized Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein in the post, stating: “God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State (where people are leaving in record numbers!).”

Peters was sentenced in October 2024 to nine years in prison with parole eligibility. She remains incarcerated at La Vista Correctional Facility pending appeal. Trump later announced a full pardon for Peters, who became a cause célèbre among election-integrity activists after her criminal conviction related to a 2021 breach of county voting machine equipment.

However, Colorado Gov. Polis dismissed Trump’s pardon as irrelevant, noting that presidential clemency does not apply to state convictions. Prosecutors alleged Peters permitted an unauthorized person into a secure area during a voting machine update and facilitated copying of restricted Dominion Voting Systems software. The incident violated state security protocols and exposed sensitive election system information, leading to her August 2024 conviction on charges including attempting to influence a public servant, criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, and related offenses for unauthorized access to Mesa County’s election management system.

Trump has repeatedly argued that Peters was targeted due to her alignment with his push to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election.