Nebraska license plate fiasco

A Nebraska license plate design contest was nearly hijacked by pranksters.

At first it seemed like the winner of the on-line contest was a black-and-white plate with the URL of Nebraska's Web site in red (upper right).

It was found, however, that those results were skewed by a prank instigated by collegehumor.com, which encouraged people to vote for they thought was the most boring design.

After the votes from the humor site were disqualified, the bird-and-flower design (upper left) became the winner. It shows the Nebraska state bird - the Meadowlark - and the state flower - the goldenrod.

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