That’s a good question. All federal Courts, including this one, maintain an electronic docket and filing system, known as ECF. In order to file a pleading, the ECF program is accessed through an login identity and password, unique to the attorney or party filing the motion. Every login identity and password is given by the court only to attorneys and parties who are authorized to practice in that particular Court and who have undergone a prior screening for their credentials. Logging in is the first step to filing anything; if you don’t login, the system will not allow you to proceed to the next step in order to file anything. Then, after a document is filed, an assigned case administrator in the clerk’s office will review the document to check for signatures and authenticity usually within a day. How all of those barriers could have been crossed to file something like this is a wonder, but it suggests nothing good about the clerk of that court.
It is possible to file new cases and/or documents through the MAIL. And I doubt the clerks are supposed to try to determine the validity of documents.
My experience has been, that the clerks just post documents up to the case; it is not up to them to sort anything out.
Read the article. He old-school snail-mailed it -- that is still a valid way to file.
Butner is whack, so it's easy to see how it got out of the prison.
But the dumbass clerk who filed it without reading it (...a Freeper?) should be fired out of a cannon.