Hoosiers choose covered bridge license plate

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Published: Saturday, 24 September 2016 21:55

INDIANAPOLIS — With more than 330,000 votes cast, Hoosiers have selected a covered bridge design to replace the outgoing bicentennial license plate.

The Bureau of Motor Vehicles let Hoosiers choose from three designs.

“Not only is this colorful design with a red bridge spanning a creek the top vote getter, it won big,” BMV Commissioner Kent Abernathy said in a statement.

The covered bridge choice received 54 percent of the vote. The design with a silhouette of the state came in second with 39 percent and less than 7 percent voted for the plate with the words “Crossroads of America.”

Voters cast their ballots at myBMV.com, at the BMV booth at the Indiana State Fair and at BMV Self-Service terminals.

The covered bridge plate will begin appearing on vehicles in January 2017 as older plates are replaced at the end of the normal seven-year cycle. The new design, along with the “In God We Trust” license plate, will not cost extra.

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