Stupid S Fl voters; or how one vote cost the caster $750k
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Not only that, but the vote wasn't even counted.
Mail in voting is teh awesome.
I don't mail mine, I use the drop box. That way it doesn't cost me anything for my vote to not count.
I saw that story last week, that's crazy! It's hard to tell from that Yahoo version of the story, but the one I read originally said the election official "thought" it was an inverted Jenny, but couldn't be sure, and the envelope had been sealed in a box that can't be opened. There had been several attorneys consulted and the general concensus was that a judge would not accept the possibility of a rare stamp being inside as a good enough reason to unseal the box.
Update - stamp possibly a fake...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15717070/from/RS.2/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15717070/from/RS.2/
Heh....they said philatelic...heh. 300K for one stamp...I'm in the wrong business...
Florida: Jenny Stamp Is Seen as Fake
By REUTERS
A stamp thought to be a rare 1918 Inverted Jenny, used by a Florida voter to mail an absentee ballot last week, is probably a fake, an official with the American Philatelic Society said. After viewing photographs of the stamp, which turned up on a ballot envelope in Fort Lauderdale, officials with the society said they found inconsistencies that led them to believe it was a reproduction. The rare stamp takes its name from an image of a biplane accidentally printed upside down. Only 100 of the misprinted stamps have ever been found.
By REUTERS
A stamp thought to be a rare 1918 Inverted Jenny, used by a Florida voter to mail an absentee ballot last week, is probably a fake, an official with the American Philatelic Society said. After viewing photographs of the stamp, which turned up on a ballot envelope in Fort Lauderdale, officials with the society said they found inconsistencies that led them to believe it was a reproduction. The rare stamp takes its name from an image of a biplane accidentally printed upside down. Only 100 of the misprinted stamps have ever been found.