Smoking Gun Email Emerges in Election Records Integrity Case in Pinellas County Florida
FL 6th Circuit State Attorney Bruce Bartlett caught red handed concealing proof of VR Systems known database/software design defect discovered in August 2024
The Smoking Gun Email - Motion to Compel Filed
I have just filed a Motion to Compel Supplementation of Public Records Production in my public records enforcement mandamus case (Liccione v- Bruce Bartlett:, et al; 25-007207-CI). I’ve notified the court that a new email has surfaced between Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections General Counsel Matt Smith and 6th Circuit State Attorney Investigator James Lenas. It is a smoking gun in the fight for election integrity. See below.
The March 4, 2025 email discloses for the first time after 550 days of government concealment that the root cause of the “No-No Ballot Request” record anomalies in official state/county Vote-by-Mail (VBM) activity reports was a known VR Systems “database/software issue” that required a patch.
This represents the first official public record disclosure after 18 months of election litigation by me, a 2024/2026 (D) candidate for Congress in FL’s 13th District, and 5 other Plaintiff-candidates (all Republicans)1, that publicly acknowledges in a government record that a VR Systems software design defect/bug caused the massive anomalous spikes in seemingly fraudulent VBM ballot requests that had been showing up en masse in the state and county official election records. These corrupted VBM reports, some up to 99.95% fake, were published to candidates and political organizations in the hundreds across the state during the 2024/2025 election cycles.
To be clear: I was deceived into believing these VBM reports showing massive mail ballot fraud on their face, were true and that I lost because of it. So I sued for election fraud. But they knew they were fake. They continued publishing known-fake reports for 6 months. They concealed they were doing so, all while keeping a separate set of true election books.
The first date of “known-falsity” (zero day) by election officials was when I served my federal election fraud lawsuit in Tampa against PCSOE Julie Marcus on August 27, 2024 (Liccione v. Marcus, et al; 8:24-cv-02005), which reported these massive anomalies.
We are now at Zero Day + 550.
The full Motion to Compel and Exhibits A & B can be downloaded above.
Don’t take my word for this folks.
Take Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections General Counsel Matt Smith’s, and VR Systems. And who was it that finally broke ranks and produced this smoking gun email?
Matt Smith.
Evil Dies in Brightness.
And I’m bringing the flashlight.
Vigilantia! Integritas! Honos!
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Republican plaintiff-candidates that sued for election fraud for same reason: Christopher Gleason, John Siamas, Rocky Rochford, Neelam Perry, and Jeff Buongiorno.
Kindergarten playground insult aside, that is actually not what Matt Smith said. He said that VR Systems conveyed to him that it was "database/software issue." They DIDN'T say the underlying data stored in the database was correct. You just made that up. They were keeping 2 sets of books at the PCSOE. The one candidates saw (falsified), and the ones they concealed (true). The data in the database was falsified because of an upsteam VR Systems software design defect. If you know anything about Crystal Reports et al, the downstream canned reports are generated from what's in the production database at time of report generation. Now, imagine what would happen if your bank knowingly published to you falsified bank statements containing what on their face are transactions you know you didn't make, on dates you didn't make them, and they kept doing it for another 6 months after you filed a fraud claim, over the wire, while ghosting you and your fraud complaint: Knowing all along that the root cause was a software defect in their database batch import software. That bank CEO would go to jail. Election records wire fraud - over 100 counts 2024 and 2025 - in Pinellas County alone. The FL Republican corrupt RICO enterprise is calling the shots. And all you got are insults for the Democrat congressional candidate messenger. You must be MAGA. I thought MAGA's were all about election integrity- or is that only in elections Trump lost? These are official "election bank statements" known to be fake, published to candidates and political orgs, by VR Systems and government officials, deceiving MANY candidates (both R's and D's) into believing mail ballot fraud had occured - because the reports said that's what had happened. This spawed EIGHT election lawsuits across FL by R's and a D. It ain't just me. You are obviously not technical because you are unable to discern the difference between a software design defect, and a post-design-phase coding error. The coverup of all of the above, and continuing transmission of known-fake election records for six months after zero day - the first date of known falsity, is a felony. FInally, if by censorship you're referring to the redacted two paragraphs at the bottom of the email, that wasn't my redaction. That is what Matt Smith transmitted to me in response to my public records request to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections. Smith redacted it. So let me make myself clear: The "fraud" here turned out to be election records wire fraud, and the ensuing cover-up conspiracy. Not voter fraud, not mail ballot fraud, not fraud in the ording or counting of ballots. Feel free to submit your own public records request to the Pinellas Supervisor of elections, ask them to produce the same email. Watch what happens. The existence of this email was concealed from me by State Attorney Bruce Bartlett's office for a full year. I had to go to the SOE to get it last month. It's a smoking gun: That's why they concealed it.
How is this going to be resolved? Who has the authority to require the full & complete results? This sabotage is designed to destroy true democracy. “I want to win no matter what.”