Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Roads Time to vote for a new license plate... again
Posted by Mishall Rehman on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Polls opened on Monday for a second round of voting to determine which one out of eight potential designs motorists will slap on their bumpers.
The re-vote controversy began back in May when Georgians were first invited to vote for the next new license plate amongst eight semifinalists picked by art faculty. Three of the designs featured the label "In God We Trust" in the slot where a county name typically appears. What unsuspecting voters did not know is that this was not part of the actual design of the plate but rather just an option of what could be written in that slot. Naturally, this attracted created a heated controversy between many church and atheist groups.
More than 400,00 votes were cast for the license plates. The ones featuring the "In God We Trust" logos were the top three. CNN reported:
"It was obvious people were voting for or against things that are not going to be part of the tag," said Brian Robinson, deputy chief of staff for communications for Gov. Nathan Deal. The voting redo stems "from a deep sense of fairness to artists and the public."
Gov. Nathan Deal and Revenue Commissioner Doug MacGinnitie were scheduled to announce the winner of the new license plate but instead announced they'd schedule another vote in light of the controversy that surrounded the voting process for the new license plates.
Voters can choose their favorite design until August 8 here.
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I voted for the only plate with the skyline of the city. Not that its the most attractive (none of them are that great) but because those damn buildings contribute a lot more to the economic base of this state than the Peaches do.
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Like InAtl I also voted for the only plate with the skyline of the city.
Ok, this great & I voted, but when can we vote on Sunday booze? Now? Let's vote now!
I fail to understand why the state does not offer a generic/utilitarian plate. The tag serves a purpose to identify the registered owner, that's all. If there was a surcharge for this new tag, I wonder how many people would actually pay for the privlege? What purpose does it fulfill to be known as the Peach State?
@KudzuGuy: "What purpose does it fulfill to be known as the Peach State?" It allows people to play travel games - like, for example, the old fave: "First one who actually sees a Peachtree in Georgia wins $50!"
400,000 votes but I just discovered you can apparently vote every day and going from one browser to another allows you to vote more than once in the same day.
Most of the designs allow for 8 characters but some show only 6 or 7. Some of the letters are tight together and will be harder to read and others are more spread out. Are we in charge of choosing these things? Perhaps we should have just left it up to god.
@jpinstripes I preyed on the capitol steps that the font size and kerning results in legible plates
Actually from a drivers point of view the less legible your tag the better.
Johnny Law : "Please pursue tag M1N0NMN for doin 57 in a 55, it's quota time after all"
Officer Bocephus: "Right boss, that was tag NM10NM right?"
JL: "Hell I can't tell, all I saw was a peach and a word jumble"
(Tag 8 is so vividly crowded as to confuse both officer and traffic cams alike)
Welcome to SNARKYTIME!
Plate 1: Wow, someone discovered clipart in an old copy of Microsoft Works. The font drop down apparently was found a few seconds later.
Plate 2: Georgia has one of them new fangled webernet thingies? Wow, watch out New York!
Plate 3: Why is there a horse's rear end on the right side? Is it a shoutout to all of those under the Gold Dome?
Plate 4: Looks like a Florida orange exploded and Virginia's license plate font shacked up with us.
Plate 5: HELLOWELCOMETOTHEPEACHSTATEWEHAVETOCROWDALOTOFPEOPLEINHERE
Plate 6: Red light cameras? What red light cameras? No one can read my plate so now GA400 is free! (like it should be)
Plate 7: Nice to see truth in advertising with the smog hovering over the city. Bedazzling the peach is a great way to represent the Other Georgia.
Plate 8: Georgia: Now we only hang peach blossoms from our trees!
Put a giant dick on the plate for all I care.
That's what those clowns do to us anyway. Hell, I even have a slogan to go with it.
Georgia: Make it Your Money Shot!
(i.e large industries and insurance companies basically run this state)
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