Yet another entry from the“you’ve got to be shitting me” files:

[nonilex@masto.ai]

The remarkable development cuts short the roughly nine-year sentence that #TinaPeters, a former county clerk in Mesa County, #Colorado, was given after being convicted in 2024 for her role in a brazen plot to “examine” [tamper with] voting machines under her control after the #2020election. Peters had tried to prove that the machines had been used to rig the contest against #Trump.

#law #ElectionLaw #accountability #consequences #BigLie #SeditiousConspiracy

[camless@m.ai6yr.org]

@Nonilex Thus invalidating a judge and jurys' consideration on the gravity of the convictions

[nonilex@masto.ai]

In an interview at the Colorado State Capitol, the governor said his commutation was not an attempt to placate #Trump [sure], who has leveled a barrage of #funding cuts & #policy attacks at #Colorado in a hostile effort to free #TinaPeters.

Instead, Polis said he believed that Peters, a nonviolent first-time offender, had received too harsh a sentence because of her embrace of #ConspiracyTheories about Trump’s 2020 election loss. [cuz yeah, who cares about #democracy]

#law #SeditiousConspiracy

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@Nonilex Jesus fuck, will we never learn?

[shdwdrgn@tech.lgbt]

@Nonilex We've been saying for awhile now that Polis is a traitor to his party and to the people. This just puts the icing on the cake.

[f800gecko@mastodon.online]

@Nonilex

The 'law' is no more.

What was a tattered USA sweat top to begin with is now little more than a rag in the gutter.

[notthatkindofdoctor@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex
Every first-time offender in Colorado should argue that they were deceived by conspiracy theories and therefore get no jail time!

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@Nonilex

CO. Gov. Polis's lame rationale for why he commuted the sentence of Tina Peters for voter fraud does little to convince anyone it wasn't to appease Trump.

[kanamauna@sauropods.win]

@Nonilex

So, did Governor Bitcoin get a big donation?

[cdncurmudgeon@mastodon.social]

@MissConstrue @Nonilex

[t2r@infosec.exchange]

@Nonilex Her sentence should have been life without parole for screwing with the constitutional rights of others.

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@Nonilex JFC - no consequences for treason, only appeasement from Dems

[nonproductive@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex Too harsh a sentence for *trying to overthrow the government*, not “embracing conspiracy theories.”

Whether she believed it was real or not is irrelevant-she knowingly and willingly conspired to overturn an election. Full stop.

That’s like saying she got too harsh a sentence for murdering her husband because she thought he was a lizard man. It’s still murder…

Hopefully her conviction will at least prevent her from being near any future elections…