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Coloradans Demand Full Pardon for Tina Peters
The New American ^ | April 28, 2025 | Rebecca Terrell

Posted on 04/29/2025 5:34:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The people of Colorado are flooding their governor’s office with calls for the release of Tina Peters.

She is the former Mesa County clerk and recorder who is serving a nine-year sentence for election interference. In office, she was responsible for maintaining election systems in her county.

The Denver Post calls the ruling “persecution” and an “example of [a] weaponized justice system.

Like many Americans in 2020, she had questions about election integrity. During an election software update, she gave someone else’s election security credential to a man she trusted. This individual took pictures of source codes, which should be open anyway, and published them. This action impacted no votes and occurred after the election. For that, 69-year-old Peters sits in the Larimer County jail, just a few months into the first part of her 9-year sentence.

It’s a shocking amount of time, especially when compared to the clemency shown other criminals and illegal aliens. Peters’ full story is told in Lara Logan’s 2024 documentary [S]election Code.

Peters appeared via phone from jail on Stern American last week. Host Steve Stern issued an appeal for people to call Governor Polis at 303-866-2471 to demand Peters’ full pardon and release. “We’d like everybody that’s listening to call the governor. He’s running for president, so certainly we think that he’d want to get Tina out of jail,” he said. “The justice department is working on it.”

Stern named a goal of one million calls, and also posted the governor’s email address: [email protected].

Regardless of whether she is released, Peters told Stern, she has lost her Social Security, which was vital to paying her mortgage. She thanked her supporters for their prayers and encouragement and urged people...

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; democrats; harassment; mortgage; pardon; persecution; peters; socialsecurity; tina; tinapeters
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1 posted on 04/29/2025 5:34:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tina’s crime was backing up a voting machine’s log file before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it.


2 posted on 04/29/2025 5:36:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Who took away her Social Security?


3 posted on 04/29/2025 5:46:15 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Deaf Smith

You can’t receive social security benefits while incarcerated.


4 posted on 04/29/2025 5:50:08 PM PDT by Repeat Offender
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To: Deaf Smith
Who took away her Social Security?


5 posted on 04/29/2025 5:50:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Repeat Offender

Do you lose them forever that would have arrived or do you get those payments lump sum when you check out of the gray bar hotel?


6 posted on 04/29/2025 5:55:48 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (tried to invade )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Hell yeah get her out

And how could this happen?

she has lost her Social Security,

7 posted on 04/29/2025 5:57:09 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The jackasses in this country are demanding that all criminals and illegal aliens are roaming America’s streets killing and stealing.


8 posted on 04/29/2025 5:57:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. "Judiciary. Putting Foreign Illegal Aliens Criminals first. They are here ILLEGALLY!)
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To: MileHi

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4314083/posts?page=5#5


9 posted on 04/29/2025 6:01:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Saw that after I posted. Thanks


10 posted on 04/29/2025 6:03:21 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Repeat Offender
Thanks.

I did not know this.

11 posted on 04/29/2025 6:15:19 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: george76

ping


12 posted on 04/29/2025 6:16:22 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No!


13 posted on 04/29/2025 6:36:39 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: DownInFlames

Is that you, Mr. Marx?


14 posted on 04/29/2025 6:40:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

One should not be denied money they earned regardless. It’s a monetary fine and punishment on top of criminal incarceration.


15 posted on 04/29/2025 6:45:47 PM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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16 posted on 04/29/2025 7:08:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I'd pardon Bernadette Peters.
17 posted on 04/29/2025 7:24:10 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (XKeep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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To: vivenne
One should not be denied money they earned regardless. It’s a monetary fine and punishment on top of criminal incarceration.

I agree. And if they have innocent family members, it could push them into poverty or homelessness.

18 posted on 04/29/2025 7:27:45 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; backspace; Balata; bboop; Ben Dover; Benito Cereno; BigEdLB; bluejean; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


19 posted on 04/29/2025 8:21:07 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Amen, So do righteous American citizens.


20 posted on 04/29/2025 8:32:07 PM PDT by CPT Clay
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