President Trump said he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted of allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

President Donald Trump is attempting to claim that he is pardoning Tina Peters, who was sentenced to nine years on state level charges for election tampering.

“Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections,” Trump said on Truth Social on Thursday. He said he was granting Peters a pardon for “her attempts to expose voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump granted a full pardon to Tina Peters, former clerk of Mesa County, who was sentenced to prison for "demanding Honest Elections."

Peters is serving a nine-year prison sentence in Colorado after being convicted by a state court for tampering with voting machines.

The Trump administration wants driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of social security numbers for all of Colorado’s registered voters, and on Thursday, they sued the Colorado Secretary of State to get it.

Most of Colorado’s independent voters distrust both major political parties and want Republicans and Democrats to be more moderate. They are most concerned about the cost of living and housing, followed by taxes and budget, and politics and polarization.

A federal magistrate judge has rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

Colorado will not comply with the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to share certain voter information, Secretary of State Jena Griswold said on Wednesday. Federal authorities have sought voter data from more than two dozen states,