Thread by @GlennaWPLG

🚨We have some answers on the #Florida Vote By Mail ballot that boomeranged for 7 weeks through the US mail, from a North Carolina post office to a #MiamiBeach home, and ultimately cost a resident her votes.

The headline: human error.
This thread has the rest:

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2/ “I was furious my ballot wasn’t counted”
Laura Quinlan mailed from NC 3wks before the Aug #Florida primary. It landed at her home Tuesday “returned to sender” & “insufficient address”, tho clearly it’s the preprinted envelope destined for #Miami Dade Elections HQ
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#MIami Dade Elections has a @USPS liaison who says: the envelope should have been put in a separate, dedicated election mail stream. Instead, a carrier misfiled the envelope into the track that processes mail for return (despite the “official” logo at the top)
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Despite the “official elections mail” insignia at the top of the envelope, no postal employee intervened along the way - to put Laura’s #Miami Dade Elections Mail in Ballot back on course.
Laura’s reaction⏩
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5/ At @MDCElections HQ - they are more than surprised about the @USPS error ... said this is the first time hearing that happen, ever - call it an anomaly.
Lots of info on VBM best practices on its website, and in @WPLGLocal10 Election Guide:

local10.com/vote-2020/2020…

6/ Hear more from Laura Quinlan - whose #Florida primary votes didn’t count because of a postal carrier error - in our wrap tonight @WPLGLocal10
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