NYT: Florida voter uses extremely rare stamp to mail absentee ballot

Absentee Ballot Carries Big Price
By REUTERS
Published: November 11, 2006

MIAMI, Nov. 10 (Reuters) — 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 election, a government official said Friday.

The stamp, a 1918 Inverted Jenny, which takes its name from an image of a biplane accidentally printed upside-down, turned up Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale, where election officials were inspecting ballots from parts of South Florida, John Rodstrom, a Broward County commissioner, told Reuters.

Only 100 of the stamps have been found, making them a top prize in philately.

Mr. Rodstrom, a member of the county’s canvassing board, said he spotted the red and blue Inverted Jenny on a large envelope with two stamps from the 1930s and another dating to World War II.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/us/politics/11stamp.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This is just sad.:cry:

Oh, and the other kicker...The ballot was disqualified because it gave no clue of the voter’s identity.

did this.......................

:wow: :cry:

damn....that is too sad for words.:cry:

:)

That could provide ID.

After all, the voter shouldn't have made that mistake, right?

could get away by cheating using some worthless old stamp! Funny.

Just because someone makes a mistake, a mistake that cost them a lot of money and nearly cost all of us a tangible piece of history, means they're a cheat? :wtf:

Like people who use old or foreign coins to buy newspapers.

They're legal tender and probably worth more than new coins.

This stamp was worth a ton of money.

Although the stamp is worth 100's of thousands of dollars, the postal value of a "Jenny" stamps was only 24 cents.

has a book full of these ones with the inverted biplane!!! Is this really valuable these days? :)

among other things.

Mr. Rodstrom, a member of the county’s canvassing board, said he spotted the red and blue Inverted Jenny on a large envelope with two stamps from the 1930s and another dating to World War II.

The right to vote IS priceless, but...
:cry:

The town?

the stamp. No word yet on what will be done with it once it has been authenticated.

I know it was coins, but weren't stamps also involved?