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The $200,000 Mail-In Ballot
2006-11-12
Inverted Jenny used on ballot?

A number of reports in the USA are suggesting that an absentee vote cast in TuesdayÂ’s midterm elections was posted using the famous Inverted Jenny stamp. Officials in Broward County, Florida noticed an unusual looking stamp as they were counting absentte votes. County Commissioner John Rodstrom, a former stamp collector, recognised it instantly.

The stamp is now being kept in storage, with voting laws stating that along with the vote itself, it must be archived for two years and then destroyed. Mitch Kopkin, proprietor of the Tropical Stamp shop in Fort Lauderdale declared that whilst it was highly unlikely that the stamp was a genuine Inverted Jenny, it would fetch between $50,00 and $200,000 if it was proved to be the real thing.
If the stamp has been canceled, its value will plummet. How many other stamps look like the Inverted Jenny? Somewhere, there's a senile old codger whose family (if he has any), is howling to high heaven.
Posted by:Zenster

#4  Naaw, just a young Jew who said "By God, they will count my absentee ballot THIS TIME".
Posted by: closedanger@hotmail.com   2006-11-12 17:12  

#3  Heh, I collected 3 50-D 5 cent pieces in the lunch line of my grammar school over the course of a month. Some kid was rippin off Dad's horde.
Posted by: Shipman   2006-11-12 07:04  

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Posted by: Shipman   2006-11-12 07:02  

#1  The stamp is now being kept in storage, with voting laws stating that along with the vote itself, it must be archived for two years and then destroyed

If the family realizes their mistake, they have a chance of, at the very least, of preventing someone else from just taking the money and giving them none in return.
Posted by: anon   2006-11-12 03:12  

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