[HOLY S**T!] Proposal to split California into 3 qualifies for Nov. Ballot

[Theodore]

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A proposal to split California has qualified for the ballot in November.

The California Secretary of State’s office says the straightforwardly named measure Division Of California Into Three States has reached enough signatures.

When a person or group backing a measure says it has enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, those signatures are turned over for verification. From there, county elections officials randomly sample verify a random sample of signatures.

The measure backed by Tim Draper has hit nearly 420,000 valid or projected to be valid signatures in the random sample, topping the 365,000 needed to qualify for the November ballot.

Draper was behind a previous move to split the state into six parts, but he cut his ambition in half in August, opting just for three this time.

Northern Californians looking to run away from Sacramento and San Francisco to join the state of Jefferson will be severely disappointed as the proposal draws the line for Northern California all the way past the current state capital.

The new California would consist of coastal regions including Monterey County and Los Angeles.

Southern California, which you might expect would include Los Angeles, instead covers counties ranging from Fresno to San Diego.

The fate of Tulare County was up in the air when Draper’s original proposal left the county out, presumably to be annexed to Nevada, and instead opted to pick Imperial County twice. He’s since updated it to include Tulare County as part of Southern California.



Here’s a list of the counties in each region:

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Alameda
Alpine
Amador
Butte
Calaveras
Colusa,
Contra Costa
Del Norte
El Dorado
Glenn
Humboldt
Lake
Lassen
Marin
Mariposa
Mendocino
Merced
Modoc
Napa
Nevada
Placer
Plumas
Sacramento
San Francisco
San Joaquin
San Mateo
Santa Clara
Santa Cruz
Sierra
Siskiyou
Shasta
Solano
Sonoma
Stanislaus
Sutter
Tehama
Trinity
Tuolumne
Yolo
Yuba

CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles
Monterey
San Benito
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Ventura

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fresno
Imperial (twice)
Inyo
Kern
Kings
Madera
Mono
Orange
Riverside
San Bernardino
San Diego
Tulare County
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/...vember-ballot/

[WarVeteranO01]

Id still live in Southern Ca no matter what...

[1bad65]

It looks like they divided it up to get 3 D States out of it.

All 3 proposed States have large D cities in them, which will probably decide Statewide races, as well as get the lions share of Legislature seats decided by population.

The point was to give R areas a chance to be represented by Rs, not make the State into 3 mini-versions of what it is now.

[Jim Jeffries]

It's an attempt to combat this movement





https://www.northcoastjournal.com/Ne...-perfect-union

[WesternChamp]

Id still live in Southern Ca no matter what...

so cal is where it's at but i think i would rather live in nor cal when i get older. nor cal has a lot of land and in some places its very quite and peaceful and this is what i like, to get away from everyone.

[WarVeteranO01]

so cal is where it's at but i think i would rather live in nor cal when i get older. nor cal has a lot of land and in some places its very quite and peaceful and this is what i like, to get away from everyone.

To cold and rainy for me. Napa is nice though...

[GhostofDempsey]

I wonder if the new plan would also give each of the three additional electoral votes as well or just divide the current number of electoral votes. Currently California has 55.

[flipbjefrox]

Lol this isn’t the first time it happened. It always lose just like how Alaska wants to secede

[Eff Pandas]

I have no dog in this race, never been to CA & not on my schedule to visit anytime soon, but interesting idea & I'd be curious to see it just to see how it works out. My guess is it'll get shot down doe.

[1bad65]

I wonder if the new plan would also give each of the three additional electoral votes as well or just divide the current number of electoral votes. Currently California has 55.

It shouldn't change their Electoral Vote total as the population doesn't change.

They would get 4 more Senate seats, however.

Since each State gets 2, dividing into 3 States would give you 6 instead of 2 as sits now as one State.