{"id":397397,"date":"2026-09-11T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T23:56:07","slug":"mail-in-ballot-envelope-scramble-hints-at-chaos-under-trump-rules-florida-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397397\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail-in ballot envelope scramble hints at chaos under Trump rules, Florida official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VJKMQLVFGNEX7IZJVAZARIHYVY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The envelope Leon County, Florida, planned to use to mail ballots to thousands of voters was initially rejected by the Postal Service for the smallest of discrepancies: 0.014 inches.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CNHFZSAFL5CLBIWJOLFSKNIR7A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Mark Earley, the county\u2019s supervisor of elections, voluntarily submitted the envelope to be prepared in case the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration\u2019s disputed mail-voting rules to take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The envelope Leon County, Florida, planned to use to mail ballots to thousands of voters was initially rejected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-397397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}