Voting begins on new Texas license plates

[sonias]

AAS article 2/4/08
Voting begins on new Texas license plates
Pick among four new designs plus current cowboy-shuttle style.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, February 04, 2008

HOUSTON — Texans who think their license plates are boring will get a chance to do something about it starting today.

The Texas Department of Transportation is conducting a weeklong vote at www.txdot.gov that could decide whether Texans keep the current plate or choose one of four new designs.

Whatever Texans choose, the new plates will add a seventh digit because the state is running out of six-digit combinations, said Rebecca Davio, TxDOT's director of vehicle titles and registration.

TX DOT

Vote early, vote often! :evilgrin:

Actually I went to the TX DOT website they gave a link to and I didn't find the voting poll. Maybe it really doesn't start until tomorrow. Anyway they do have a comment period for the Trans Texas Corridor and you can go give them an earful on that one.


Sonia

[hobbit709]

1. They got my earful.

[kentauros]

2. Can we just go with "boring" European-style

8-digit license plates and be done with it? Nothing but large, easy-to-read-at-a-high-speed-glance numbers and letters and nothing else to distract from the original purpose of a license plate. I'd love to know who started this whole "trend" of glorified metal bumberstickers and throttle them.

[merci_me]

3. Here's the direct link.

I voted for the first one. Nice, simple and classic. Isn't it ironic that there's a law about your license frame obscuring any part of you plate, yet the state does everything they can to clutter it up themselves.


http://apps.dot.state.tx.us/services/vehicle_titles_and_registration/vote_plate.htm

[muse]

4. I voted for that one, also

I liked the old, old, olden days when they had stark black letters and that was about it. It MAYBE had a small black state of Texas on it.

[snooper2]

8. I voted for first one also...looked fine to me...

This one is winning with 126,000 votes 2nd place has 78,000 votes

[sonias]

5. Texans jam license plate voting Web site

Houston Chronicle 2/5/08
Texans jam license plate voting Web site
The omission of Houston from one design gets corrected
(snip)
So many people hit the agency's site in the first 30 minutes, it crashed, according to Kim Sue Lia Perkes, spokeswoman for TxDOT's Vehicles, Title and Registration division.

"We're really excited people want to vote. It tells us we've done the right thing to put it out there," Perkes said. "However, not all of the more than 20 million registered Texans can vote at once. So we've had a few glitches, people have slowed down the system."

By 6:45 p.m., more than 75,000 people cast votes for their favorite new plate design.

20 million registered voters? What is she talking about? We only have about 12.5 million registered voters in Texas. And you sure as hell don't have to be a registered voter to vote in this online poll.

While a good portion of the rest of the country votes for presidential candidates today, we in Texas have to settle for voting for licence plates. :eyes:

Sonia

[merci_me]

6. 20 million registered vehicles, maybe ? n/t

[sonias]

7. Sure that makes more sense

I wish we had 20 million registered voters. We should. Our voting age population is large enough to support that number. We just have a lot of people who don't register and even of those that register about 50% of them don't vote.
:shrug:

Sonia

[tbyg52]

11. Huh. I bet it didn't crash because of people voting on license plates

I bet it crashed because of people submitting comments about the TTC. Nobody wants that thing except the fat cats who want to get fatter.

I think it's telling that all their town hall meetings are for the stated purpose of selling this monstrosity, *not* for listening to what the people have to say. (I understand they are getting an earful anyway. I can find no conceivable excuse for building something that so many of we the people, even those nowhere near it, do not want.)

[flying_wahini]

9. I voted for the "natural" plates....

I think it's purty....

[BrightKnight]

10. It sends the right message. -n/t

[sonias]

12. We have a winner!!!

AAS article 2/11/08
New Lone Star license plate selected by Texans
Unofficial winner features mountains, sky and white star.

By Matt Presser
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, February 11, 2008

With 1.1 million online votes tabulated, we have an unofficial winner for a new Texas license plate design.

Texans cast 455,000 votes for Lone Star Texas, a red, white and blue plate that features a mountain range, blue sky and a white Lone Star, the winner pending verification of the vote.



Texans cast 455,000 votes for Lone Star Texas, a red, white and blue plate that features a mountain range, blue sky and a white Lone Star, the winner, pending verification of the vote. Natural Texas, which features a meadow of wildflowers, was a distant second place with about 294,000 votes.

The week-long vote, which ended at noon today, offered visitors to the Texas Department of Transportation Web site the choice of keeping the current plate or choosing one of four new designs.

Sonia

[NoPasaran]

13. The new plate looks like a credit card

:puke:

[sonias]

14. Well coming from a state that wants to finance roads with tolls

Seems appropriate.


Sonia