After serving 19 months, former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was released from state prison on June 1.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, an elected Democrat, commuted her sentence on May 15.
"Tina wants everyone to know that it is easy to lose one’s freedom, but it is difficult to endure," Peters told NTD in a statement released through her attorney Peter Ticktin on Monday.
Peters, 70, was sentenced to 9 years in 2024 for allegedly breaching election security in the 2020 presidential race. Prosecutors accused her of smuggling an outside computer expert into her county offices to copy data from a Mesa County server run by Dominion Voting Systems.
In her statement, the former Mesa County Clerk thanked President Donald Trump who advocated on her behalf during her imprisonment.
"She is grateful to all of her friends, reporters, attorneys, and loved ones for being so true through the period," Ticktin said. "Also, she is grateful to President Trump for never giving up on her, never quitting, and for fighting for her. Without his efforts, she would still be behind bars."
Following a 10-day trial, Mesa County jurors convicted Peters of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiring to commit criminal impersonation, and violation of duty, and in April, an appeals court upheld the conviction but ordered a resentencing ruling that she was improperly punished for speaking out about election fraud.
Ticktin noted that Peters was quietly moved out of the correctional facility before the media could arrive today and the prison administration coordinated the stealth exit due to safety concerns.
"The new warden made Tina’s release work like clockwork," the statement noted. "He took no chances and had her moved before the press showed up. She would have let the press know, but couldn’t, and she is grateful to the warden."
Peters will now focus on her personal recovery, according to Ticktin.
"There is still a major concern for her safety, and she needs time to heal and get her health back," he said. "Meanwhile, she will be making personal decisions as to many factors in the coming weeks."
Vice-President J.D. Vance mentioned Peters last month while discussing the Anti-Weaponization Fund, a new U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) fund aimed at compensating victims of lawfare and political persecution.
“This is a woman who at worst, if you believe everything that the prosecutors said about her, committed misdemeanor trespassing and somebody threw the book at her,” Vance said.