Tina Peters, a Christian election-denying felon, has traveled the country raising doubts about voting since June when she left prison seven years early thanks to President Donald Trump’s successful pressure campaign against Colorado officials.
Peters thanked Trump in the Oval Office and later sat down with officials from the Department of Justice and Commerce Department to promote her “Tina Peters Plan” and “Risk-Mitigation Roadmap.”
Last month she attended the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas before joining Steve Bannon, Roseanne Barr and Eduardo Bolsonaro and dozens of fellow conspiracist speakers for a “Storm Summit” in Las Vegas.
Bolsonaro is the son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolonaro, who was convicted of trying to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and sentenced to a quarter century in prison.
“She caught the Democrats cheating, and they put her in jail for voter fraud,” Trump said in a falsehood-filled post that was accompanied by a photo with Peters. “She knows that the Voting Machines are RIGGED, that the Mail In Ballots are a DISASTER, and that our Elections are very Dangerous and Corrupt.”
None of that has proven true, yet Trump keeps repeating it.
Jared Polis
Colorado is one of 18 states where elections take place “mostly by mail.” Democratic Gov. Jared Polis was criticized for commuting Peters’ nine-year sentence, but she remains a felon and must clear her busy travel schedule with state officials.
Peters was the Mesa County clerk in 2020 when she gave an ally of My Pillow founder Mike Lindell unauthorized access to election systems, requiring the county of 150,000 people to buy new voting machines.
Peters, 70, claims she’s a “whistleblower” and “political prisoner” who “honored her oath and was locked up for it. After 606 days behind bars, she is free.”
Trump said he gave Peters a pardon, but he lacks the authority to do so in state convictions. Instead, her freedom came after administration officials organized a “brainstorm call” to “discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”
That call resulted in the cutoff of hundreds of millions of dollars in congressionally approved funding for transportation and energy projects in for the state, as The New York Times reported: “What followed amounted to an all-out assault on the Democratic-run state. Along with the transportation and energy funding cuts, the Trump administration moved to dismantle a leading climate and weather research center based in Boulder, rejected Colorado’s pleas for disaster assistance, threatened its food stamp program and vetoed a pipeline project intended to provide clean drinking water to the state’s eastern plains.”
Colorado has sued Trump and the administration over the cuts. A White House email about the “brainstorm call” was part of the evidence presented by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.
“The White House orchestrated an unconstitutional scheme to weaponize the federal government to attack and punish Colorado.”
“The White House orchestrated an unconstitutional scheme to weaponize the federal government to attack and punish Colorado for its lawful decisions over elections and our criminal justice system,” Weiser said.
Democrat Weiser, one of the nation’s most active attorneys general for lawsuits against the Trump administration, is expected to succeed Polis as Colorado governor. His opponent, Republican candidate Victor Marx, is a ministry leader who formerly worked for Focus on the Family and has no political experience. Marx has divided the state GOP and recently blamed his numerous campaign finance complaints on his donors.
In D.C., Tina Peters met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. Dhillon has put pressure on states to limit mail voting.
Peters says her election plan “is not a claim that every system is compromised. It is not a claim that a past U.S. election result was electronically altered. It is a forward-looking federal risk-mitigation plan for the November 3 federal election.”
Peters said there are problems and Trump and state officials should intervene in November’s elections. “America should not wait for a nationwide equipment replacement, and it should not wait for a completed Commerce investigation before acting,” she said.
“The Tina Plan” urges paper-based verification and calls on states to “independently verify electronic results before certification” without explaining who would verify results. It calls on the president to “deploy lawful protective measures” without explaining what those measures are.
Peters’ website also features an hour-plus “2026 Prophecy” video from a near-death-experience website titled “She Went to Heaven and Saw Trump’s Role in 2026.” In the video a young girl shares her experience of falling down, hitting her head and seeing heavenly visions of Trump fulfilling God’s call by “sifting” the nation.
“Jesus told me, he makes people choose which way they are going to walk, he is part of the sifting,” says the girl. “He makes everyone show his true colors.”
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