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M.A. Rothman 𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄: 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐑, 𝟕𝟎-𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑-𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐌, 𝐒𝐀𝐘𝐒 “𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑” Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who Wayne Root calls “𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢”, was released from a Colorado state prison on June 1 after Democrat Governor Jared Polis cut her nine-year sentence in half. She is a 70-year-old Gold Star mom who served nearly two years for 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟗,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 in Mesa County’s 2020 voting system. What she found: before-and-after forensic images showing 29,000 vital election records were erased, plus 𝟑𝟔 𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 in an air-gapped system that was supposed to have no wireless access at all. A man sitting in her office deleted those records in front of her. She preserved the evidence. For that, she got nine years. (Colorado Sun) The prison conditions were what you would give to someone the system wanted to break. A minimum-security offender housed alongside women convicted of k!lling their children, women who had been incarcerated for 30 years for m∗rder. She was denied bail on appeal. She was denied parole at first hearing. She received letters from supporters for two years—and the prison withheld them, only releasing them near the end. She wrote two letters to Trump from prison. The Colorado Democrat Party 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬 for daring to commute her sentence. AG candidate Jenna Griswold is running ads bragging about putting Peters in prison—not on what she’ll do for Coloradans, just on locking up a 70-year-old over election records. Peters is still on three-year parole, still cannot leave Colorado without permission. She says she is going to Washington and will “𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘮”. “𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.” 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐦∗𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨-𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞.