Donald Trump granted Tina Peters a full federal pardon, a symbolic gesture for the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was convicted of state charges related to breaching voting machine equipment.Peters is currently serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her involvement in a scheme supporting Trump's unproven claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.Colorado officials, including
Jena Griswold,
Phil Weiser, and
Jared Polis, affirm that presidential pardons do not apply to state convictions and that only Polis has the authority to grant clemency for state crimes.