In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters reads an update on the election in Grand Junction, Colorado. McKenzie Lange/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel/AP

A federal judge on Monday refused to release from prison former Colorado clerk Tina Peters , the only ally of President Donald Trump currently behind bars for crimes related to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Last year, a state jury convicted Peters , the former Republican clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, of participating in a criminal scheme with fellow election deniers to breach her county’s secure voting systems, in hopes of proving Trump’s false claims of massive fraud.

Trump has championed the case of Peters , 70, who is now one year into a nine-year prison sentence, calling her an “innoc

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