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 county clerk Tina Peters, convicted in a pro-Trump election denial scheme, has been attacked three times in prison, according to her lawyer.

Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters seeks a pardon from President Donald Trump after her request to be released via a writ of habeas corpus was denied.

Former Colorado election official Tina Peters' latest effort to get out of prison flopped Monday, as a federal magistrate judge denied her habeas corpus petition because her state-level appeals had not yet run their course.

“The DOJ is trying to collect a lot of data on American voters, and they do not have a legal right to the sensitive information they're asking for, and we don't trust what they're trying to do with it,” said Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold in an interview with CPR News.

A federal judge on Monday refused to release from prison former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the only ally of President Donald Trump currently behind bars for crimes related to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

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,

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked Colorado to share unredacted voter information, according to Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, and the state “will not comply.”

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A federal magistrate judge denied former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters’ request to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction.