President Trump issued a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines during the 2020 election. She is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence in Colorado, and state officials say that President Trump does not have the legal authority to overturn her conviction in state court. A lawyer for Peters, who attempted to present the formal pardon at the prison where Peters is being held, was met by armed corrections officers who denied him access. Peter Ticktin, a lawyer for Peters and a longtime friend of Trump, told The New York Times, “For all I know, the president may send a marshal to the prison to have her released.”