Just found out that the new MO license plates have a typo. They are supposed to read "Show-Me State" but actually say "Show Me State" without the grammatically correct hyphen. The DMV spokesguy said that's what people voted for so that's what they'll get, typo and all. Apparently because a few thousand people voted for these new plates without noticing the typo, we get incorrect plates. But what they don't tell you is that the actual plates people voted on had the words "Show Me State" the side from top to bottom and no one thought a hyphen looked good that way. But nobody corrected it when they moved it back to the longstanding spot of top center just below state name. Even though a tiny fraction of the total in the state have been printed so far the state DMV is sticking by its mistake. I think they would rather blame the voter citizens rather than admit their mistake and if they make a correction for the remaining plates yet to be made, they will be admitting their mistake and that would be embarrassing. Their attitude is Better to pass the blame than admit an embarrassing mistake. Any thoughts on why this mistake happened in the first place or why no govt. official noticed until recently? Apparently the first to notice the mistake was some college professor weeks after the first batch of new plates were issued. Isn't that what these state execs. make the big bucks for? I could somewhat understand the budget thing of correcting the ones already issued but apparently only a small fraction of the total 10 million cars have been issued the new plates so far so they could theoretically fix the mistake for the rest yet to be made. What do you think?