Scandal-plagued state elections official named in formal complaint alleging federal violations
The scandal-plagued state secretary of State in Colorado who is known to have posted hundreds of state elections systems passwords online and avoided any punishment whatsoever now is named in a federal complaint charging violations of federal elections law.
Jena Griswold, a devout Democrat who orchestrated a case against former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, a Republican, when Peters tried to preserve documentation of her suspicions of vote irregularities in the 2020 election and was sentenced to nine years in jail, has been accused in a complaint from United4Freedom.
The nonpartisan group dedicated to “restoring the fundamental right of every American citizen to representative government,” said its formal administrative complaint was filed under the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
It alleges “systemic violations of federal election law involving post-certification alterations to Colorado’s statewide voter registration database.”
It charges that Griswold orchestrated “nearly 488,000 post-certification voter record changes across three federal elections.”
The organization cites “evidence that 487,887 voter participation history records were modified after elections were officially certified in 2020, 2022, and 2024.”
WorldNetDaily has reported that while Peters was imprisoned for allegedly interfering with election records, Griswold, as the state’s top elections official, was found to have posted hundreds of election system passwords online, but was not even reprimanded, much less prosecuted for her mishandling of state secrets.
Jared Polis, the state’s homosexual governor, has been under pressure from Peters’ advocates as well as President Donald Trump to take action to free Peters from prison, and just recently, after flatly refusing for months, he admitted he was thinking about it.
That change came after one of his personal friends, a Democrat, was convicted of the same charge as Peters, but she was given probation, not prison.
Polis’ comment:
Last week, former State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis was sentenced to probation and community service after being convicted of four felonies including Attempt to Influence a Public Official. She made a horrible mistake, and she was wrong. I hope she learns from this and can rebuild…
— Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) March 4, 2026
WorldNetDaily reported earlier on Trump’s opinion of Polis, regarding the Peters case.
He had said Polis can “rot in Hell.”
On social media, Trump posted, “God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State (where people are leaving in record numbers!). Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor, and the disgusting ‘Republican’ (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail In Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!). I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETERS!”
The organization’s complaint against Griswold charges after Colorado certified the 2020 election, there were 328,895 “post-certification changes” to the election’s records.
Those included ballot records that were added, or deleted.
“The complaint argues that altering participation histories years after certification either means the records were inaccurate when certified—or they were retroactively modified. If the election tally WAS NOT accurate, why certify? If the election tally WAS accurate, why make changes to a federal record after certification? There is no third option. Either way, it’s a crime,” the organization charges.
It continued, “The complaint alleges that the ability to perform bulk additions and deletions of hundreds of thousands of voter participation records after certification demonstrates: • Either insufficient technological safeguards • Or mass authorized changes without transparent audit controls.”