President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

President Donald Trump has issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado elections administrator convicted of a data breach scheme tied to false claims of election fraud

Trump has pardoned former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted of breaching voting systems. A federal judge recently denied her request for release.

An overwhelming majority of Colorado’s unaffiliated voters say they reject both major parties and want to see Democrats and Republicans become more moderate, according to the findings of a new statewide poll.

The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

Colorado Congressman Gabe Evans, a freshman Republican running for reelection next year, faces an extremely tough race as one of the most vulnerable Republicans in Congress, election experts tell

“Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections,” Trump said on Truth Social on Thursday. He said he was granting Peters a pardon for “her attempts to expose voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump granted a full pardon to Tina Peters, former clerk of Mesa County, who was sentenced to prison for "demanding Honest Elections."

President Donald Trump is once again calling for the release of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is in a Colorado prison for her role in tampering with election equipment following the 2020 election.

President Donald Trump is attempting to claim that he is pardoning Tina Peters, who was sentenced to nine years on state level charges for election tampering.

The Trump administration wants driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of social security numbers for all of Colorado’s registered voters, and on Thursday, they sued the Colorado Secretary of State to get it.