Understanding Kansas License Plate FAIL

This isn't a pressing issue but this kind of column is why we read the local news.

Even better . . . We'll start with an official quote that kinda admits that Kansas can't even manage to distribute auto accessories . . . Check-it:

In the past year we had one new plate design announced where pretty much everybody said “oh hell no.” That ill-fated attempt was rolled back and since then, we’ve had two online elections to pick new plate designs. 

The new standard plate, chosen in December, has a picture of the Native American archer statue on top of the Capitol dome. The new personalized plate design, chosen last month, has a field of green representing the Flint Hills in the month or so of each year when they actually are green . . .

I did talk to Brandi Baily, the Sedgwick County treasurer who’s tasked with distributing plates to the public on behalf of the state. Baily described the implementation of new plates thusly: “It was a big confusion, a big mess. And if you want my honest opinion, it could have been done a lot better.”

Baily said the newly designed plates were supposed to start going out in January. But with the pushback against the first design and the subsequent online votes to replace it, counties didn’t get permission to start issuing the redesigned plates until Aug. 12.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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