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Stephen Richer Dear Gov. Jared Polis – I understand you’re considering pardoning Tina Peters. Please don’t.
, I’m the former elected recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona and had a front-row seat to elections over the past six years. I’m intimately familiar with the efforts to sow doubt in our elections and how delicate faith in our democracy has become. I urge you to let the normal process run its course.
Tina Peters is eligible for parole in 2028, and her current sentence could be shortened on appeal. Intervening now would tell the whole country that we do not value safeguarding our elections. It would strike a devastating blow to the confidence in our election laws.
For years, Donald Trump and his allies have warned us election administrators that our time is coming, that we will be pro
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