Colorado clemency board members terminated after revealing Polis ignored their recommendation against Tina Peters clemency
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Colette Bordelon
Summary
Two former members of Colorado's clemency advisory board say they were terminated after publicly revealing that Governor Jared Polis ignored their recommendation to deny clemency for Tina Peters, a former Mesa County clerk convicted for her role in a voting system security breach. The board members, who spoke with Denver7's Colette Bordelon, detailed the behind-closed-doors process and their subsequent dismissal, raising questions about transparency and the governor's clemency decision-making process.
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· 3 pulledWe recommended that clemency be denied, and the governor went against that recommendation.
Our decision to speak publicly about what happened got us terminated from the board.
What happened behind closed doors needs to be brought to light for the public to understand.
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