Trump admin eyes moving convicted election clerk Tina Peters to federal custody [View all]

The Trump administration is looking to transfer former election clerk Tina Peters, who was found guilty of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 election, from state prison to federal custody, Colorado state officials and one of her lawyers told The Associated Press on Friday.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons sent a letter to the Colorado Department of Corrections requesting the transfer of Peters, the AP reported.

Peter Ticktin, one of Peters’s defense attorneys, said that while the letter did not explain why she should be transferred, it could be due to health problems she has had in prison and to increase her involvement in the investigations into voting machines used in 2020.

Peters was found guilty by a jury in 2024 on seven counts, including four felonies, for helping to facilitate access to the county’s voting equipment in search of voter fraud that she and her allies were unable to prove following the 2020 election. She was cleared of three lesser charges.



https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5607518-tina-peters-transfer-federal-custody-trump-administration/