Hum Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 (edited) LINCOLN, Neb. -- Gov. Dave Heineman has unveiled Nebraska's new license plate. CORRECTED The plate's background is black at the top, fading to white, with the state's Nebraska.gov Web address in red letters at the top. The design received the most support among 109,000 people who voted on four plate designs on the Nebraska Motor Vehicles Department Web site the past two weeks. The design garnered almost 41,000 votes. Nebraska redesigns and issues new license plates every six years. source Edited May 23, 2009 by Hum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C++ Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I guess design isn't one of Nebraska's strong points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashpickinman Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I saw the options for the other three plates through a link from the article. IMHO, they picked the blandest of all of them. edit: Other plates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 Nebraska Thwarts Pranksters' License Plate Hijacking LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska on Friday threw out thousands of votes -- online votes for its new license plate -- after discovering that a minimalist approach initially won only because a humor Web site had urged people to choose the most boring design. Department of Motor Vehicles Director Beverly Neth announced Friday that a white, gold and black plate featuring the state bird and state flower -- the western meadowlark and goldenrod -- is the actual winner of online voting. The new plates go into use in 2011. The winner announced Tuesday had been a black-and-white plate with the URL of Nebraska's Web site in red. But those results were skewed by a prank instigated by collegehumor.com, which encouraged people to vote for what it deemed to be the most boring design. Gov. Dave Heineman's spokeswoman, Jen Rae Hein, said the black-and-white plate generated 12,510 of the 14,805 votes cast through collegehumor.com's link to the Nebraska DMV voting site. After Neth disqualified the humor site's votes, the bird-and-flower design became the winner with 32,858 votes. The black-and-white plate managed to place second among four entries, less than 5,000 votes behind. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C++ Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Oh. Way to go, Hum. Now my first comment looks stupid because the updated design is rather pleasant. I'm suing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 ^ Why is it 'stupid' ? We did not know at the time the vote was corrupt. And I can't allow the trusting Neowin readers to think that boring plate is the new one. [Remember kids: Everything you see on the Internet is true !] You can always request the Mods Delete your post. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 what's the state motto now, "Fear he who goes behind the rows"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Lyle Global Moderator Posted May 23, 2009 Global Moderator Share Posted May 23, 2009 I saw the options for the other three plates through a link from the article. IMHO, they picked the blandest of all of them. edit: Other plates. :| They need a professional designer Nebraska Thwarts Pranksters' License Plate HijackingLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska on Friday threw out thousands of votes -- online votes for its new license plate -- after discovering that a minimalist approach initially won only because a humor Web site had urged people to choose the most boring design. ROFL! That is the best news i've heard all day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stetson Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Not sure why people are so obsessed with license plate designs, so many of them that I see these days are so full of designs and colors and symbols and sports teams and messages that you would be hard pressed to actually read the license number. That is kinda the point of a license plate, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 agree, plus it's become a money making overkill, Illinois has so many varieties, i'm waiting for the Gamer Plate to show up on the SOS website. pretty much every other hobby has one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inklin Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 I wish plates here in the UK had a nicer design, Yellow on the rear plate and white on the front is just bland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted May 25, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 25, 2009 adadad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIVIsectVI Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Um...I live in Nebraska, and I don't even care what the plates look like. Not sure why this is news here, but...ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted May 25, 2009 MVC Share Posted May 25, 2009 sacscascasc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted May 25, 2009 Member Share Posted May 25, 2009 All license plates are sort of bland and ugly, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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