"I am vigilant in this."
--Julie Marcus
“Everything that concerns this process is to ensure every voice is heard, that we foster trust and confidence and that we are ensuring that we have a process that is transparent," said Marcus, Pinellas County's Supervisor of Elections.
Chris Gleason has made unsubstantiated claims that incumbent Julie Marcus engages in vote counting fraud. Now he’s running to be in charge.
The allegations were outlandish, but they still shocked Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Julie Marcus when they appeared on a blog in 2022.
Clearwater resident Chris Gleason claimed that Pinellas County was “ground zero” for mail ballot fraud that stole the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump, even though Trump won Florida. To his followers online and at local political clubs, Gleason spread allegations that Marcus erased votes and attempted to hide the evidence, which Marcus said is “categorically false.”
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