She carried out the breach amid unsubstantiated claims that mass voter fraud had caused Trump to lose the White House in the 2020 presidential election.
The case became one of the most high-profile prosecutions connected to attempts to challenge the outcome of the 2020 election, which Trump falsely claimed had been stolen from him.
In a statement shared with the BBC through her lawyer on Saturday, Peters expressed remorse for her actions.
“I made mistakes, and for those I am sorry,” Peters said, in part. “I have learned and grown during my time in prison and going forward I will make sure that my actions always follow the law, and I will avoid the mistakes of the past.”
Defending his commutation of Peters, Governor Polis argued that while she did commit a crime, her “sentence is simply disproportionate for a first time, non-violent offender”.
“To be clear, I am not pardoning Tina Peters, and I have never considered a pardon,” Polis wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.
“Tina Peters violated state law and broke the public trust by lying to the Secretary of State and illegally accessing a computer room in 2021 prior to a software update,” Polis said. “Her actions were clearly illegal, wrong, and financially costly to Mesa County, and Colorado.”
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