Colorado Gov. Jared Polis granted clemency on May 15 to former county elections clerk Tina Peters who had been convicted of lying to Colorado state officials about a tech specialist she brought in to observe changes to election software. The commutation of her sentence by the Democratic governor came after the Colorado Court of Appeals left Peters’ conviction intact but ordered her re-sentenced. In December 2025, President Donald Trump pardoned Peters, a Republican and vocal Trump supporter, but the presidential pardon appeared to be symbolic, because she was convicted of a state-level offense. Trump said at the time in a Truth Social post that Peters was being incarcerated in a Colorado prison “for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections.”...