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Secretary Gray Issues Letter to Colorado Governor on Release of Former Mesa County Clerk
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray sent a letter to Colorado Governor Jared Polis this week, urging the immediate release of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted for her role in a security breach in the elections office she was in charge of overseeing. In his letter to Governor Polis, Gray said Peters was wrongfully convicted and is a victim of left-wing political persecution.
In August of 2024, Peters was convicted on a number of charges in a Colorado state court for attempting to overturn the 2020 election of Joe Biden as U.S. President. President Trump’s pardon of the election denier lacks any authority due to the fact that the Constitution states that a president can only pardon those convicted of federal crimes, not state crimes. Only Governor Polis can pardon Peters or grant her clemency.
Thomas Jones
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 pm
It’s sad that we still have political prisoners in the US.
Forrest R
January 30, 2026 at 3:18 pm
Ms. Peters received the full benefit of a court process and was justly convicted of her own wrong doings in attempting to overthrow the results of the 2020 elections. You should be ashamed of yourself of being so slow and uncritical of a thinker that you’d be dumped into thinking a County Clerk who attempted to break into the electronic voting machines she was sworn to protect was somehow a “Political Prisoner”. She got what was coming to her, and if you were truly a patriotic American you’d be glad an elections official who was caught trying to cheat was so harshly punished. This is the heart of our democracy we’re talking about, and I get the feeling you just don’t care about that sort of nonsense. Orange Man said she’s a political prisoner so you salute and call her a Political Prisoner… Who was she trying to steal the election for? Who stood to benefit from her actions and is now unconstitutionally trying to free here from State custody? Oh! ITS DONALD TRUMP YOU DOLT
Scott Thomas
January 30, 2026 at 9:40 am
Maybe Chuck Gray should keep his nose in Wyoming. No one cares what he says here, why would CO? There is an appeal process if you are wrongly convicted. If we undermine the whole due process system by pardoning convicted individuals, based on the whim of those in power, the whole thing falls apart.