Friday evening, just prior to 9 pm central time I was killed by a creeper as I stepped off the protected outpost at /waste e on smp8. When I respawned all of my voter armor (head, chest, legs and feet) were gone from my inventory. I still had my voter's sword, just no armor. When I went back to my death spot, none of the rest of my equipment was there either. (Just a few enchanted tools, arrows, torches and food) Is there any way to have my voter armor returned to me? I can rebuild the enchanted tools, but I cannot get the armor again.
Usually the armor is there but not visible. If you click in the first 4 slots of the top row in the inventory should should be there. But if this is the case disconnecting and connecting again will refresh it. Also, try right clicking with a damaged tool - that will also refresh your inventory. Should this not work, I'd private Aikar at pm.emc.gs/Aikar and see if he'll replace it. Because it's a bug, it will probably be fixed. I hope you get this resolved.
Thank you for the advise and possible solutions PenguinDJ. Sadly, after trying all that you have suggested, I am still armorless, so I did message Aikar. Even if I can't be helped, with luck it can be researched and keep it from happening to others.
Have you checked your vault? This happened to someone else and it spawned in their vault, so I recommend trying it.
An update. I had checked my vault, and all the chests in my residence, just in case, with no results. However, switching to another world did the trick and I have my armor back.