A Vote’s Value

There are many people in the US who could care less if they vote or not. They think there vote is worth nothing. Here's somebody who values their vote.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/ts_nm/life_stamp_dc" >Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>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.<br />n<br />nThe 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.<br />n<br />nOnly 100 of the stamps have ever been found, making them one of the top prizes of all philately.</blockquote><br />n<br />nYes, 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.<br />n<br />nSeriously 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.<br />n<br />n<strong>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</strong>


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