Six county clerks again urged Gov. Jared Polis to refuse a federal request to transfer Tina Peters into federal custody Tuesday, with one official arguing that the governor’s silence on the request was “deafening” and “offensive.”

“This issue absolutely transcends politics,” the official, Boulder County Clerk Molly Fitzpatrick, said during a press call. “It is about right and wrong, lawfulness and accountability, and not creating further damage to the integrity of our elections or escalating opportunities for threats against election officials.”

The call from the Colorado County Clerks Association, delivered in an online news conference Tuesday morning, joins letters from the state’s attorney general, Phil Weiser, and secretary of state, Jena Griswold, who similarly asked that Peters rem

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