You can sell your house, car, body…but you can’t sell your vote? Is there anything else of yours you can’t sell? (bodyparts?)

Peddling his vote over the Internet proved costly for a man from the southern Finnish city of Hyvinkää. The man tried to sell his vote in last autumn’s municipal election via the huuto.net online auction site.

The starting price in the bidding for his vote was one euro. The seller promised to vote for whomsoever the highest bidder would ask him to. The Hyvinkää District Court sentenced the man to pay 40 day-fines, totalling EUR 680, after finding him guilty of election bribery.

Let’s do some math: 680 euros divided by 40 days = He’s poor. Let him earn a little extra cash on the side.