Peter Ticktin is a Florida-based attorney and founder of The Ticktin Law Group who has represented several high‑profile, Trump‑aligned clients in recent years, including former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters in her criminal and post‑conviction matters related to her efforts to preserve election records pertinent to the 2020 election.
Ticktin leads The Ticktin Law Group, a litigation-focused firm that has taken on cases involving election‑related disputes and challenges to voting processes, such as a 2024 lawsuit in Florida seeking to nullify the result of a congressional election over alleged vote‑by‑mail irregularities.
Ticktin attended New York Military Academy, where he served as Donald Trump’s platoon sergeant, then briefly entered medical school before switching to law. He earned his first law degree in Ontario, Canada, began practice there in 1972 as a criminal barrister, and appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada early in his career.
On December 6, Mr. Tiktin submitted the following letter to President Trump on behalf of former Mesa County, CO Clerk Tina Peters.
The letter makes several strong assertions regarding how the 2020 election was stolen and affirms the value of Tina Peter’s actions in bringing forth the evidence of this theft.
In 2020, Ronald Morales worked for Dominion under the direct supervision of Eric Coomer, David Moreno, and John Poulos. Unbeknownst to Colorado's county clerks, including Clerk Peters. Mr. Morales, Mr. Coomer, and Mr. Moreno were the three main people working on our soil to overthrow our government in 2020.
The letter lays out the legal arguments by which President Trump could pardon Tina Peters using the authority granted to him under the U.S. Constitution.
Summary of key assertions:
Hugo Carvajal’s December 2025 proffer shows a long‑running Venezuelan (and Chinese‑linked) plot involving Smartmatic and Dominion technology to undermine U.S. elections.
Venezuelan Smartmatic employees, including Ronald Morales, allegedly came to the U.S. in 2006 on visas, modified Sequoia equipment, and later worked under Dominion supervisors to help “overthrow” the U.S. government in 2020.
These individuals are accused of enabling remote access to county servers, altering ballot images and tally data, concealing foreign access, lying to U.S. officials, and changing software after certification and testing.
Dominion and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold allegedly used the 2021 “Trusted Build” to delete 2020 election records in violation of federal retention requirements.
Clerk Tina Peters imaged Mesa County’s Dominion equipment before and after the Trusted Build, allegedly preserving the only complete copy of the 2020 election data, which later showed tens of thousands of files erased.
Dominion and Griswold purportedly pushed for Peters to be criminally investigated solely for preserving that data, despite no underlying crime.
Peters’ prosecution is characterized as a “show trial” intended to intimidate all clerks from preserving election records or questioning alleged fraud.
The letter alleges serious trial errors, including failure to recognize Peters’ authority as an elected clerk, improper restrictions on her expert Conan Hayes’ credentials, and bias among jurors.
Recent U.S. DOJ indictments and Carvajal’s proffer are framed as falling “dominoes” that validate claims of an orchestrated international criminal enterprise involving Smartmatic and others.
Peters is portrayed as a critical eyewitness whose testimony and preserved data are essential to proving a coordinated scheme by Dominion and officials, which is why she allegedly had to be “silenced.”
Her current imprisonment is described as harsh and dangerous, including threats, assaults, unsafe housing, medical neglect, and denial of safer housing.
The letter argues that the U.S. President has constitutional authority to pardon state as well as federal offenses, based on an originalist reading of “offenses against the United States.”
It claims Colorado used state charges to evade presidential pardon power and punish Peters for complying with federal election‑record preservation laws.
The author urges President Trump to exercise this asserted power to pardon Tina Peters for her Colorado convictions.
To date, the President has not issued a public response to this letter. President Trump has, however, issued several strong statements in support of Tina Peters on social media. We also have evidence of a request that was made by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to the Colorado Department of Corrections asking for a transfer to federal prison system. This request has since been denied by the State of Colorado under Governor Jared Polis.