California's Secretary of State reports that the initiative to require a vote in 2021 on whether California should secede from the Union has failed to achieve the requisite number of signatures by the deadline.
Will they try again? Tomorrow is another day.
The initiative on splitting California into three states -- an intriguing idea botched by incompetent line-drawing -- was taken off the 2018 ballot pending review by the California Supreme Court. The proponent then dropped his opposition to the case, effectively stipulating to taking it off future ballots permanently. See Planning and Conservation League v. Padilla (Draper), No. S249859.
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