2026年3月4日 美国东部时间晚上10:24 / 路透社
华盛顿，3月4日（路透社） – 科罗拉多州州长贾里德·波利斯周二表示，他愿意考虑对蒂娜·彼得斯给予赦免。彼得斯是一名前州县书记员，因非法篡改投票机而被定罪，她此前一直声称2020年总统选举存在舞弊。
波利斯以另一名公职人员获得较轻刑罚的案例为例，称赦免可能是避免量刑差异的适当举措，尽管科罗拉多州国务卿表示彼得斯犯下了更为严重的罪行。
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波利斯特别指出，州参议员索尼娅·哈克斯·刘易斯（Sonya Jaquez Lewis）被判处相对较轻的刑罚——缓刑和社区服务。刘易斯因试图影响公职人员等指控被定罪，检察官称她伪造了前助手的信件。
“我注意到，她（刘易斯）和蒂娜·彼得斯被认定犯有完全相同的重罪——试图影响公职人员，但彼得斯作为一名非暴力初犯却被判处了9年徒刑，”民主党人波利斯在社交平台X上表示。他强调司法需要公平适用。
他将赦免申请截止日期延长至4月3日，以便自己有时间重新审查此案。
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科罗拉多州国务卿杰娜·格里斯沃尔德（Jena Griswold）是该州最高选举官员，她周三表示，称刘易斯和彼得斯的行为造成了相同影响的说法并不准确。
“彼得斯组织了对选举设备的入侵，违背了公众信任，并攻击了我们民主进程的根基，”格里斯沃尔德在一份声明中表示。
彼得斯是一名共和党人，她一直强烈支持美国总统唐纳德·特朗普关于其2020年总统选举失利是由于广泛舞弊的无证据指控。
2022年，彼得斯办公室发生选举安全漏洞事件，导致投票设备密码被发布在一个右翼博客上，随后她被起诉。她否认有任何不当行为。
70岁的彼得斯于2024年被判定犯有7项罪名，包括三项试图影响公职人员的指控。她要到2028年11月才有资格获释。
彼得斯的律师彼得·蒂克廷（Peter Ticktin）表示，希望州长本周能减刑，称9年徒刑“过于严厉”。
特朗普多次呼吁将彼得斯从科罗拉多州立监狱拉维斯塔惩教中心（La Vista Correctional Facility）释放，并批评波利斯未给予她赦免。
特朗普于去年12月赦免了彼得斯，但此举被认为是象征性的，因为彼得斯并未处于联邦监禁中。
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Colorado Governor Polis signals he is open to clemency for Tina Peters
March 4, 2026 10:24 PM UTC / Reuters
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – Colorado Governor Jared Polis signaled on Tuesday he was willing to consider clemency for Tina Peters, a former state county clerk convicted of illegally tampering with voting machines as she pursued claims that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen.
Polis, citing the case of another public official who was given a lighter penalty, said clemency may be appropriate to avoid sentencing disparities, although Colorado’s secretary of state said Peters had committed a more grave offence.
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Polis has drawn attention to the relatively light sentence – probation and community service – handed down to State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis, who was convicted of attempting to influence a public official and other charges after prosecutors said she forged letters from former aides.
“It is not lost on me that she was convicted of the exact same felony charge as Tina Peters — attempting to influence a public official — and yet Tina Peters, as a non-violent first-time offender got a nine-year sentence,” Polis, a Democrat, wrote on X. He said that justice needed to be applied evenly.
He extended the clemency application deadline until April 3, allowing him to review the case.
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, the state’s top election official, said on Wednesday that it was inaccurate, however, to suggest that the actions of Lewis and Peters had the same impact.
“Peters organized the breach of the election equipment, broke the public trust and attacked the very foundations of our democratic process,” Griswold said in a statement.
Peters, a Republican, was an outspoken supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that he lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election because of widespread fraud.
She was indicted in 2022 following an election security breach at her office that led to voting equipment passwords getting posted on a right-wing blog. She denied wrongdoing.
Peters, 70, was convicted in 2024 on seven charges, including three counts of attempting to influence a public servant. She is not eligible for release until November 2028.
Peter Ticktin, a lawyer for Peters, said he hopes the governor commutes the former county clerk’s sentence this week, saying her nine-year sentence was “too harsh.”
Trump has repeatedly called for Peters to be released from the La Vista Correctional Facility, a state prison in Colorado, and has criticized Polis for not granting her clemency.
Trump pardoned Peters in December in a move that was considered symbolic since Peters is not in federal custody.
Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington; Editing by Edmund Klamann
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