# Why aren't cars with "sovereign citizen" plates summarily impounded and drivers charged?

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**Created:** [July 9, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-cars-with-sovereign-citizen-plates-summarily-impounded-and-drivers-charged/1020658 "2025-07-09T13:38:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-cars-with-sovereign-citizen-plates-summarily-impounded-and-drivers-charged/1020658/71 "2025-07-17T16:05:36Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Here in Illinois, they still issue a sticker to put on the plate with every year’s renewal.

Same here. Then idiots put them all over the plate obscuring it.

> [@Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/45):
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> Stop putting your gawddam year stickers all over your rear license plate so the plate can barely be read. I don’t give a funck that you paid last year. And nobody is stealing year stickers off plates. And if they did just take your registration slip to the DMV and they will give you another sticker. $312.87 fine for you. Here’s your ticket, fuzznuts! Pretty petty, huh?

But it’s not anyones job but mine to deal with it. Vigilantes be damned.

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