Tina Peters Warns Democrats Will Cheat In Midterms
Tina Peters wasted no time after leaving Colorado’s La Vista Correctional Facility. On Monday morning, the former Mesa County elections clerk went on Steve Bannon’s podcast and said she expects Democrats to cheat in this year’s midterm elections.
Peters said the problem is already showing up in races around the country. She pointed to contests involving Zohran Mamdani in New York City, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, and other states as signs that election integrity is still not being taken seriously.
“I see these elections that are taking place in real time: the Mamdanis, the Virginia governor — Spanberger — and then what’s going on in California and Texas and Maine — just all over the country,” Peters told Bannon. “And I know that the Democrats are going to cheat, and no one’s really addressing the problem that I spent my time in prison as retribution for, and that was exposing the election machines that allow the votes to be flipped.”
Her release followed a commutation from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, who cut short her nine-year sentence. Peters had been serving time for her role in breaching Mesa County’s voting equipment in 2021. Her case became a major flashpoint in the ongoing fight over election security.
Peters called her release a “miracle” and said her 606 days in prison were “quite the ordeal.” She also said she had spent part of that time watching and thinking about recent elections, which led her to believe the same problems could affect the 2026 midterms.
“As we’re coming up to our 250th anniversary, I’m joyful that we still have our liberty but at the same time I’m very concerned and burdened with why no one is talking about this,” Peters commented.
President Trump has already taken steps to tighten election rules during his second term. In March 2025, he signed the “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections” executive order, which directed the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to require a voter-verifiable paper record and to bar voting systems from using barcodes or QR codes except where needed for disabled voters.
The Justice Department has also sued several states over alleged failures to produce voter rolls. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said, “The Justice Department will continue to fulfill its oversight role dutifully, neutrally, and transparently wherever Americans vote in federal elections. Many state election officials, however, are choosing to fight us in court rather than show their work. We will continue to verify that all States are carrying out critical election integrity legal duties.”
The fight over election security is not going away. Peters’ release and her warning put the issue back in the spotlight just as the midterms start to take shape.
https://x.com/KyleClark/status/2061478980704927955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw