On the 18th of May, 2003, Maria Vindevogel of Schaerbeek, Belgium, found herself placed in the center of a cosmic anomaly. While Vindevogel was one of the least favored candidates, she had received more votes than was possible at the time. Belgium had been experimenting with electronic voting for a decade at this stage, but something seemed amiss. After hours of re-counting, all vote counts matched… except for Vindevogel, who was up 4,096 votes more than she should have been.