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Voting Time Again as State Asks Floridians To Click on Their Favorite License Plate

November 26, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

There will be no recounts. Click on the image to go vote.

Florida has a hard time pulling off elections without trouble, but the state is trying again. This time, it’s for the Sunshine State’s next-generation license plate.

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The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is asking Floridians to vote on one of four choices, online, starting today and until Dec. 14. The plate with the most votes replaces existing plates beginning in 2014. You can vote by clicking on the image of the four plates above, which will take you to the voting booth, or by clicking here. Let us know your preferences in the comments.

Nothing stops anyone from around the globe from clicking a vote, so the license plate’s choice may be influenced by Siberians or Saudi Arabians.

The state says the new plates won’t cost drivers more than current plates, even though they will cost more to produce once the production line is privatized. “Estimates from our vendor and others indicate that this price could increase to a price between $2.10 and $2.29 per plate,” a 40-page motor vehicle department document on the redesign, issued in September, concludes. However, the state estimates, postage fees would decrease slightly for the new, flat plates. For those who get their plates by mail, that may be an advantage. But most people get their plates at tax collectors’ offices.

A committee of some 20 stakeholders, including state agency personnel, law enforcement, tax collectors and affiliated associations participated in the development of the final license plate designs. The motor vehicle department’s in-house graphics artist created the proposed designs.

All four proposed plates preserve the symbolism of the orange, though in one of them the orange looks like a twin of the Georgia peach, while another may be anatomically suspect, with a leaf growing out of its rind. All four preserve the obvious: the state’s name and its “Sunshine State” tagline, which should not be confused with the state’s motto. Florida’s motto is the faintly unconstitutional “In God We Trust,” adopted in 1954 as a replacement for the Founders’ favorite, E Pluribus Unum (a Latin tip of the hat to pluralism that translates as from the many, one). The motto does appear on some Florida plates, but it’s not clear whether it will survive the redesign.


The redesign affects only standard plates. The state continues to provide its innumerable specialty and vanity plates.

The redesign is pat of a larger plan to improve the visibility and readability of license plates (especially for cops, red-light spy cameras and automated toll-collection devices), increase the number of characters on a typical plate from six to seven, and reconfigure the way license plates are distributed across the state. The plan entails a degree of privatization that local tax collectors oppose, because it may reduce collectors’ role in handing out license plates. Currently, tax collectors’ offices are the primary point of contact for drivers who want to get or renew a driver’s license and get license plates.

Tax collectors raised objections to the motor vehicle departments’ original plan, leading to a pause in the push to redesign.

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  1. Ron says

    November 26, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    Well… I guess the great state of Florida can’t even pull off a simple online vote for a favorite license plate. I tried to bring up the website, and it didn’t work.

    Fail.

  2. kmedley says

    November 26, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    I received the same error message. Who’s running this election?

  3. tulip says

    November 27, 2012 at 8:19 am

    Yesterday (11/26) I clicked on one of the license plates in the picture, the site came up, and I clicked on the plate of my choice and had no problem.

  4. tulip says

    November 27, 2012 at 8:23 am

    Second post re: license plates: Just for the heck of it, I went in to the site just now (11/27) and discovered that a person can vote more than once, nothing comes up that says I had already voted. After a person “votes” a big check mark comes up and it says “thanks for your input.”

  5. Nancy N. says

    November 27, 2012 at 9:06 am

    The emphasis on readability means they are all ugly. Where’s the box for “none of the above”?

  6. Ron says

    November 27, 2012 at 9:52 am

    Tried again today (11/27) and got the webpage, but when I picked my plate, the site bombed again.

    Double fail.

  7. Charles Gardner says

    November 28, 2012 at 4:54 pm

    Voted for the one in lower right corner.

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