Leon County, Florida’s mail ballot envelope design placed the words “return service requested” 0.236 inches away from its election office’s return address, when it was supposed to be a quarter-inch, leading the USPS to reject it on September 2, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. The county’s supervisor of elections, Mark Earley, called it “ridiculous.”
After Earley’s office filed an appeal, the envelope design was eventually accepted.
“After several requests to postal employees today, I was granted a temporary certification for my envelopes in case the rule goes into effect. If the rule does not go into effect, then my envelopes are completely fine. So either way, we are good this election!” Earley told the Democrat in an email, referring to new USPS design rules resulting from President Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail.
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To make this story make sense:
Leon County is 40% non-white.
Also
“The county has voted Democratic in 24 of the past 29 presidential elections since 1904”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_County,_Florida
And typically left leaning as a whole. In a pretty red state.
Let me guess, does it lean blue too?
Edit - just checked, and surprise surprise…
In case anyone wants to see it
Heavily Democrat
https://enr.electionsfl.org/LEO/Summary/3738/
30% Black
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/leoncountyflorida/PST045225
Also: Florida.
You expect Florida to be excempt from this sort of thing.
Lol why? Florida sucks and has a deserved reputation as such. This is exactly the sort of thing to come out of the DeathSentance state.
I’m saying that you’d expect them to come down on California and New York while giving Florida a pass.
No. They were saying that as further evidence.