{"id":1342,"date":"2026-05-15T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:40:24","slug":"who-is-tina-peters-the-colorado-clerk-whose-sentence-for-election-crimes-was-commuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Who is Tina Peters, the Colorado clerk whose sentence for election crimes was commuted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s governor commuted Peters\u2019 sentence after a White House pressure campaign against Colorado<\/p>\n<p>Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk, had her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/colorado-governor-tina-peters\">prison sentence commuted<\/a> on Friday by Colorado\u2019s governor, Jared Polis, after months of pressure from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and other conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The move drew immediate rebuke from Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a>, including the US senator and former governor John Hickenlooper.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/tina-peters-colorado-election-clerk-commutation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s governor commuted Peters\u2019 sentence after a White House pressure campaign against Colorado Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk, had her prison sentence commuted on Friday by Colorado\u2019s governor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1342\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}