ST. PETERSBURG — Pinellas elections officials now say that 12,525 people were wrongly telephoned this morning with a message that they had until 7 p.m. "tomorrow" to turn in their absentee ballots.
Here's what happened, according to Nancy Whitlock, a spokeswoman for supervisor Deb Clark:
Pinellas officials used a Internet phone system called CallFire.com, to record messages reminding people of the deadline to turn in mail-in ballots.
On Monday, election officials sent out a reminder to 27,917 people saying ballots must be returned by 7 p.m. "tomorrow" — or Tuesday. But for reasons unknown, 12,525 of those calls wound up in a queue and were not placed until between 8 and 8:30 a.m. this morning.
By then, "tomorrow," referred incorrectly to Wednesday.
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2 comments:
It was meant to be that way :( ....a conspiracy.
Elections have always been a conspiracy.
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