Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp
A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare stamp to mail an absentee ballot in Tuesday's congressional election, a government official said on Friday.
The 1918 Inverted Jenny stamp, which takes its name from an image of a biplane accidentally printed upside-down, turned up on Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale, where election officials were inspecting ballots from parts of south Florida, Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom told Reuters.
Only 100 of the stamps have ever been found, making them one of the top prizes of all philately.
Yes, somebody in Florida valued their vote enough they used a stamp worth more than $500,000 to sent in their vote. I think it's important to vote but I don't know that it is that important to me.
Seriously though, I wonder if the person who done this knew the stamp was worth that kind of money or not. I really doubt it or they wouldn't have done it. Quite a story though.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau
