AFPI Celebrates Tina Peters’ Pardon, Calls on Colorado to Grant State Pardon

Washington, D.C.—The America First Policy Institute welcomes President Donald Trump’s pardon of Tina Peters, a former Colorado election official who was targeted by a weaponized justice system after she blew the whistle on what she thought was voter fraud. In 2024, she was sentenced to 9 years in state prison. Without a state pardon, she will remain in prison.

The most fundamental responsibility of an election official is to raise their voice when they have reason to believe election fraud is taking place. Ms. Peters did just that and had the full weight of the Colorado government viciously crash down on her.

Colorado prosecutors sent a signal to other conservatives that if you seek to protect our elections, you will pay a price. This is the opposite of transparency and is an obvious violation of voter integrity. As a nation, our citizens deserve to know that election officials are making it easy to vote and hard to cheat. There is no way for that to happen when they believe they will be sent to prison for voicing any concerns about into potential fraud.

What Ms. Peters has endured is wrong. It is immoral and is inconsistent with the values we hold as a free nation, as a free people with honest elections.