Overview
- The Minnesota Department of Transportation named 30 finalists and opened public voting through noon Feb. 13.
- Officials said about 400 of nearly 6,800 submissions referenced "ice," which was kept off the finalist list due to associations with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
- Contest rules limited entries to 30 characters and barred vulgar or political themes.
- The top eight vote-getters will be assigned to snowplows, one in each of MnDOT’s eight districts.
- This year’s lighthearted finalists lean toward music and pop-culture puns, and the agency highlights its roughly 800-plow fleet and operators.