Colorado Democrats censure Polis over Tina Peters commutation
Colorado Democrats voted to censure Governor Jared Polis after he reduced former election clerk Tina Peters' sentence from nearly nine years to four and a half years. The censure limits Polis from speaking at or being featured at Democratic Party events. Democrats argued the commutation sets a dangerous precedent for election tampering accountability.
- ▪The state Democratic Party’s Central Committee approved a censure resolution against Governor Jared Polis with a 90 percent vote.
- ▪Polis reduced Peters' sentence amid pressure he said came from President Donald Trump, stating the original term was overly harsh.
- ▪Stephanie Beal of the Democratic National Committee read the censure language, emphasizing concerns about election integrity and political influence.
- ▪Peters, convicted for illegally accessing voting machine software in 2020, will be released from prison next month.
- ▪Polis clarified that the action was a commutation, not a pardon, and maintained that Peters illegally accessed the computer room.
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State Watch Colorado Democrats censure Polis over Tina Peters commutation Comments: by Ashleigh Fields - 05/21/26 8:11 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Ashleigh Fields - 05/21/26 8:11 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Colorado Democrats on Wednesday voted to censure Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) after he reduced the sentence for former election clerk Tina Peters, who is set to be released from prison next month. During a virtual meeting, state Democrats rebuked Polis for commuting Peters’s nearly nine-year sentence down to 4 1/2 years, and 90 percent of the Democratic Party’s State Central Committee voted to approve a censure resolution, according to Colorado Public Radio.
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