Tina Peters turns down job with California county’s registrar of voters

Former Mesa County, Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters turned down a job offer to oversee elections in a conservative California county north of Sacramento, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.

“She declined the offer because she’s running around the country right now trying to secure the elections,” Shasta County, Ca. registrar of voters Clint Curtis told the outlet. “Shasta County lost out.”

The Hill has reached out to the registrar of voters for comment.

Curtis, who has made claims about rigged voting machines since the early 2000s, told the LA Times that he sought Peters out as a consultant “to assist with supervision of the November election.” He described California as a “second-chance state. Except for Peters.”

“No second chance for her in Shasta County,” he told the newspaper.

Peters’s lawyer, Peter Ticktin, told the Times that she seriously considered the job but that she would not have served in the role full-time due to her schedule, calling her an “American icon.”

The Shasta County official indicated last month that he wanted to hire her to replace his top deputy on medical leave. Speaking with “The Northstate Breakdown,” he said that Peters had experience and was “able to take the rocks and arrows.”

California Democrats slammed the notion that she would have a role in the Golden State’s elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called hiring Peters “a disgrace.”

“I’m directing [the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] to make every effort to BLOCK any transfer of her parole supervision into California,” Newsom wrote on social media on Monday.

Sens. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Saturday sent a letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber stating their concern has less to do with her qualifications and more to do with President Trump’s “obsession with interfering in the midterm elections.”

Peters previously oversaw the results of the 2020 election while working as an elections clerk in Mesa County, Colo. The votes she certified were found to heavily favor Trump, but former President Biden won the state by 13 points, prompting Trump to later claim Democrats had “stolen” his victory.

Peters was later charged in connection with providing an associate of MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who has also made false remarks about the integrity of the 2020 election, with access to the county’s voter systems in search of alleged fraud in May 2021.

She was found guilty on seven counts, including four felony counts for election interference, and sentenced to nine years in prison. But in April, a Colorado appeals court ruled that Peters should be resentenced, resulting in her release after Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) commuted her sentence.

Trump, who would post on Truth Social calls to “FREE TINA,” pressured Polis to pardon her after the president gave her a symbolic pardon in 2025.

Colorado Democrats censured Polis for the commutation. The governor later reportedly fired two members of his clemency board for publicly opposing the commutation.