US justice department to review conviction of former election clerk

Republican Tina Peters of Colorado was sentenced to nine years for her role in voter interference data-breach scheme

Donald Trump's justice department said it will review the Colorado conviction of former election clerk Tina Peters, who received a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a voting system data-breach scheme as part of an unsuccessful quest to find voter fraud in 2021.

Yaakov Roth, an acting assistant attorney general, wrote in a court filing on Monday that the Department of Justice was reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process", including Peters'.