Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk who is serving a Colorado prison sentence, has applied for a pardon from President Donald Trump, according to her lawyer.

Peters was convicted for her role in a scheme to breach the security of her own election equipment in 2021, part of an effort to find evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

An application for a presidential pardon was filed “about two weeks ago,” Peter Ticktin, her Florida-based attorney, told Newsline Wednesday.

Presidential pardons are universally understood to apply only to federal cases. Peters was convicted on state charges. But Ticktin argues that the Constitution’s references to the United States apply to the individual states as well as the country as a whole.