{"id":261409,"date":"2026-06-01T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/tina-peters-convicted-in-election-security-breach-emerges-defiant-and-vows-legal-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:48:00","slug":"tina-peters-convicted-in-election-security-breach-emerges-defiant-and-vows-legal-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/tina-peters-convicted-in-election-security-breach-emerges-defiant-and-vows-legal-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Peters, convicted in election-security breach, emerges defiant and vows legal fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tina Peters, convicted in election-security breach, emerges defiant and vows legal fight<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-01 15:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Former Mesa County, Colorado election clerk Tina Peters remained unapologetic in her first public interview since her prison sentence was commuted, reiterating many of the same conspiratorial beliefs about elections while vowing to recover her health and fight on in court to have her criminal record expunged.<\/p>\n

In an interview with former Trump campaign manager and White House official Steve Bannon, Peters called it a \u201cmiracle\u201d that Democratic Governor Polis commuted her sentence and defended him from \u201cthe horrible media and haters\u201d who were critical of the move.<\/p>\n

Peters said those critics \u201cdon\u2019t go after murderers and people like that [Polis] chose to pardon but they go after me, so there is a concern there for my well-being and my safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Polis has said that Peters expressed contrition for her crimes prior to the commutation, she complained in her interview with Bannon that the Colorado governor had refused to issue her a full pardon that would remove the conviction from her criminal record, vowing to continue to \u201cfight\u201d the matter in court using leftover legal funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though Governor Polis reduced my sentence from nine years to four and a half years, I still have a fight to clear my name and bring the truth of why they came after me the way they did,\u201d Peters said.<\/p>\n

Peters was convicted of seven felonies and sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing another person\u2019s identity and using it to break into Mesa County election facilities, turn off the cameras and take voting system data.<\/p>\n

Polis\u2019 commutation of Peters sentence, which came after two years of relentless pressure from Trump, was met with cheers from conservative allies and bitter criticism from members of his own party.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Democratic Party censured Polis and banned him from participating in future state party events. Incumbent Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colo., is running to succeed Polis as the Democratic candidate for…<\/p>\n

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