California High Court Rejects Proposed Measure to Divide State

In November, Californians will not have to decide whether the state should be partitioned. The state Supreme Court ruled this week that a measure on partitioning the nation's most populous state into three could not be put on the ballot for the November midterm elections. In June, state election officials announced the proposed ballot measure had received enough signatures to appear on the ballot. Yet, the state’s highest judicial body ruled that splitting California would amount...

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