$%&@!! Maine Rethinks Decision to Stop Vetting Vanity Plates From Fort Kent to Kittery, there are now all matter of obscenities including straight-up f-bombs and references to anatomy and sex acts adorning license plates Published May 5, 2021 • Updated on May 6, 2021 at 6:28 pm NBC Universal, Inc. Based on crude license plate messages, one may be forgiven for assuming Maine doesn’t give two flips about obscenities. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows wants to change that. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Bellows, a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, testified Tuesday in support of several bills to rein in the wild west that ensued when the state ended the vetting process for license plates in 2015.