Despite pressure from the Trump Administration to transfer convicted former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from state prison to federal custody, Colorado’s Department of Corrections (CDOC) said Tuesday in a statement “the department is not currently seeking any transfer.”

The statement obtained by Denver7 from CDOC spokesperson Alondra Gonzalez-Garcia added “requests to transfer inmates from Colorado Department of Corrections emanate from the state, and not from other entities.”

Peters was found guilty of granting unauthorized access to Mesa County voting systems that she oversaw while continuing to press discredited claims about rigged voting machines.

Peters is serving a 9-year prison sentence. President Trump has called Peters a “political prisoner”.

Earlier this month, the CDOC rec

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