Several weeks ago, Kevin Corrigan posted a link on CollegeHumor asking the site to help ruin a public poll for a new license plate design for the state of Nebraska. He asked users to vote on the lamest and most boring license plate design (shown above). Now, he is being told that that particular design has won and is now the new license plate for the entire state of Nebraska! The new design will hang from 1.2 million Nebraska vehicles starting in 2011. WOW. Never under-estimate the power of the internet. Seriously. It must suck to be Nebraska right now.
Have you seen the original 4 choices? they all sucked in my opinion. surely they could have come up with better designs than that!
Actually, it probably won’t. http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10639217
Actually, they invalidated all of the votes that they could identify coming from that site and thereby declared a different plate the winner. So no, CollegeHumor didn’t help pick anything, actually. http://www.dmv.ne.gov/admin/newsRelease/PressRelease5-22-09.pdf
When doesn’t it suck to be in Nebraska?