<p>All this question needed was a reopen vote. That would have kicked this question back into the reopen queue.</p>

<p>There was one reopen vote cast after Vass's edit, but it was cast <em>while the first reopen review was still happening</em>. So when the verdict of that review turned out to be "Leave Closed", that reopen vote's power to kick questions up to the queue was tragically stymied. But since the post was not reopened, that vote was never cleared, so the original reopen-voter couldn't re-use their vote.</p>

<p>Simple, right? (Has the word 'reopen' totally lost meaning for anyone else? Just me? Okay fine.)</p>
