Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is facing mounting pressure from both sides of the aisle to keep former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters in state custody.

The Colorado County Clerk’s Association sent the governor a bipartisan letter urging him not to grant a request made last week by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to move Peters into federal custody.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold also sent Polis a letter Friday urging him to deny the request.

Peters is serving a 9-year prison sentence after being found guilty of granting unauthorized access to Mesa County voting systems in an effort to find voter fraud that supported President Trump’s claim that he had won the 2020 presidential election.

According to The Associated Press, a member of Peters’s legal team said the reason for the reques

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