Question: When is a vote worth $200,000?

Answer: When someone attaches a $200,000 stamp to a postal ballot. (If you were looking for some juicy vote-buying scandals, look elsewhere.)

Sadly, as this was a really great story, the stamp was fake. Even worse (well, not really, but as a budding political scientist I have to act like I think so), the vote was invalid. Sheesh, losing out on the transcendental experience of exercising one’s democratic right just because one wanted to have a bit of fun…

Via The Museum of Hoaxes.