What Do You Think of Ohio's New License Plate Design? (Poll)
Gov. John Kasich unveiled new matching designs for Ohio's drivers licenses and license plates. What do you think of them?
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Gov. John Kasich unveiled new matching designs for Ohio's drivers licenses and license plates.
Gone is the pink drivers licenses panned by Ohio's men. In its place is a simpler, red and white design that's supposed to invoke the wings of an airplane.
What do you think? Love the new design? Hate it? Take our poll and tell us in the comments.
The new license will feature upgraded security features, a mandate that states must follow by 2013.
The new plates and licenses are coming in December 2012. The old ones will be phased out.
The new plates will feature 30 to 40 phrases blended into the white background that exemplify Ohio.
And you can have a hand in picking which phrases make the final plate. The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has a poll that allows Ohio residents to vote on their favorite phrases.
Amanda Harnocz
9:30 am on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Many of you voted that the new license plate design is awful.
Why do you think the new look is unappealing? Do you think it's boring? or are you just sad to see the salmon-colored license go?
Dave Wilson
9:41 am on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
I kind of like the new look. It's clean, readable, distinctive. Nobody's going to confuse it for North Carolina plates.
Nancy
9:49 am on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
I like the clean simple look of it! Much better than the current plates. Also, I'm pretty sure nearly everyone will be happy to see the pink driver's license go away (I like pink, just not on my driver's license).
Terry
10:26 am on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The current plates are so "Country Bumpkin" I would be embarrassed to have them on my car. Thanks for the change Guv Kasich. It's not the best design but it's WAaaaaaay
better than the current.
Could care less about the drivers license. Hardly anybody sees it anyhow and by now
everybody that looks at it is used to it.
Jessica
1:16 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
I like the new colorful ones that we have now. These are just bland.
Ed Kent
1:59 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
It's too bland, but at least it doesn't have what reminded some people of a tornado in that older design that was supposed to be a river of something.
"With God All Things Are Possible" will be very popular since it is, after all, our state motto. The ACLU tried and failed to get that changed.
History of Ohio's official motto:
"With God All Things Are Possible" became Ohio's state motto on October 1, 1959. A twelve-year-old boy named James Mastronardo recommended this quotation from the bible during a contest sponsored by the Ohio legislature in the early 1950's to select a state motto.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit against Ohio and its state motto in 1997, claiming the biblical quotation violated the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution which guarantees religious freedom separation of church and state. Federal courts allowed Ohio to retain its motto, ruling that the state motto does not endorse a specific God and therefore was not a violation of the first amendment. Four other states contain the word "God" in their mottos.
Earl Elevant
4:05 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
We just had new license plate designs. We didn't need yet another redesign.
Which of Kasich's buddies did he pay to design the new ones?
Allison Gray
5:09 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
They should have had a contest for the new license plate design. Crowdsourcing would have produced a better plate. It's not awful, it's just not that creative.
Amanda Harnocz
6:10 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
You can at least vote on your favorite phrases here: https://ext.dps.state.oh.us/BMVOnlineServices.Public/NewPlateSloganVote.aspx
Laura Moorehead
5:11 pm on Wednesday, November 30, 2011
I like the country-ish ones we have now. They are happy! The new ones are plain and boring! Booo!
JOHN DOE
9:43 am on Friday, May 4, 2012
Much acceptable if configured this way... Blue for Boy's and Pink for Girl's! I like the license new look, and in particulary the ' Veteran New Stamp ' on it. So you can showed anytime for store's military discount.