Article III Project asks DOJ to investigate Colorado officials over Tina Peters imprisonment

The conservative group, Article III Project, asked the Justice Department on Monday to investigate Colorado officials who imprisoned former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for tampering with county voting machines to prove there was alleged fraud in the 2020 election. 

Peters, an ally of President Donald Trump, was convicted in 2024 of tampering with the voting machines after she was allegedly trying to prove election rigging six months after the 2020 election, according to Colorado Public Radio. 

She was sentenced to nine years in prison but an appeals court ruled last month that she needs to be resentenced after part of the sentence punished Peters for her protected speech regarding claims that there was fraud in the election.

The conservative group argued in the letter, obtained by the Daily Caller, that Colorado officials illegally retaliated against Peters for leaking voting machine data in 2021.

“The evidence is clear: Colorado government officials conspired to severely, unconstitutionally, and criminally punish Tina Peters because of her First Amendment-protected views on election integrity,” the Article III Project wrote in the letter.

The group asked the department to investigate Judge Matthew Barrett, who sentenced Peters to nine years, Democratic Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, Republican Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and Democratic Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold over their involvement in the alleged retaliation scheme, along with “any and all other potential coconspirators.”

The letter comes the same day that Peters was released from prison after Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence. She is now out on parole.

Peters' legal team is seeking to overturn the criminal convictions that sent her to prison.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.