Tina Peters takes her election conspiracy roadshow to Washington | CNN Politics

Two months into her post-prison life, election denier Tina Peters traveled to Washington for high-level meetings this week with Trump administration officials, pitching her plan to invoke emergency powers and assert unprecedented federal control over elections before the November midterms.. The DC trip – where Peters met Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division — was her latest stop in a national tour promoting her vision to overhaul US elections. She has used her newfound freedom after her prison sentence was cut short in June to spread her usual false claims about voting machines rigging elections, speaking at conferences and hitting the right-wing podcast circuit. Those conspiracy theories were at the heart of Peters’ criminal case in Colorado, where she was convicted on state charges in a scheme to breach election systems in Mesa County, where she was the clerk, in hopes of proving that the results in the 2020 presidential election were fraudulent. Peters’ post-prison renaissance was made possible by Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, who commuted her prison term, paving the way for her early release