Link ShareTina Peters, Convicted in Election Data Breach, Hired in California

Election denier and Trump supporter Tina Peters, hired by Clint Curtis, the Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters in California, to serve as an elections consultant in conservative California county.

This is following the events in 2020, when Tina Peters breached her own county's election security systems and carried out a cover-up in an attempt to prove baseless theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

As the elected County Clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, her actions led to a prominent criminal trial. In August 2024, a jury convicted her of seven out of ten state charges, including four felonies.

The felonies include:

• One count of Facilitating an Identity Theft Scheme
• One count of Breaching Election Equipment
• One count of Leaking Sensitive Election Data
• One count of Deceiving Public Servants

Tina was charged and sentenced to 9 years in prison for her crimes.

However, President Donald Trump and his administration exerted severe federal financial pressure on Colorado, essentially waging what state attorneys called an "all-out assault" to force Tina Peters' release.

When Colorado Governor Jared Polis refused to recognize a symbolic presidential pardon or issue a state pardon of his own, the Trump administration retaliated with aggressive political and economic measures.

• Withholding Federal Grants: The administration froze hundreds of millions of dollars in vital state transportation and energy funding.
• Denying Disaster Relief: The federal government rejected Colorado’s urgent requests for emergency disaster assistance following local fires and flooding.
• Dismantling Research Labs: The administration announced plans to disband the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) based in Boulder, Colorado.
• Threatening Social Safety Nets: The administration threatened Colorado's food stamp programs and explicitly vetoed a major pipeline project designed to deliver clean drinking water to the state's eastern plains.

The pressure campaign was coordinated during a high-level federal brainstorm session where administration staff explicitly directed agency heads to "discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado". Ultimately, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser condemned the early release, stating that caving to the "bullying Trump administration" was a dark day for the rule of law.

Opinion: it's very well likely that Trump intends to tap Peters, come the 2024 mid-terms, to participate in broad, baseless, vague and unsubstantiated claims that Tina Peters facilitated unauthorized access to election machines, unearthed an election conspiracy, or rigging of elections.

On Truth Social, Donald Trump fiercely defended Peters and publicly attacked Colorado officials. His primary statements and claims included:

• Declaring a Full Pardon: In December 2025, Trump posted on Truth Social that he was granting Peters a "full pardon", calling her a "Patriot" who was being relentlessly targeted by Democrats simply for wanting "Fair and Honest" elections. (Legal experts and the Colorado Secretary of State immediately noted this was legally toothless, as a U.S. President cannot pardon state-level convictions). [Source]
• Attacking the Governor: Trump repeatedly slammed Governor Jared Polis in his online commentary and public remarks, calling him a "weak and pathetic man" for keeping Peters incarcerated. [Source]
• Falsely Claiming She Exposed Cheating: Trump falsely alleged that Peters had caught people cheating or uncovered an election scam. In reality, Peters' criminal breach of the voting systems failed to produce any evidence of fraud. [Source]

Tina Peter's sentencing: https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/03/tina-peters-former-mesa-county-clerk-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison-over-voting-systems-breach/