DETROIT — A Michigan activist who promoted false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and once live-streamed a protest outside Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home has begun working in the Macomb County clerk’s office.
The hiring of Genevieve Peters in an office that helps administer local elections has some Democrats in the battleground county concerned ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm vote. But Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini, a Republican, defended Peters, who he said was brought on around May.
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