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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #125 on: July 29, 2014, 05:15:35 PM »

And now I know they're spelled differently. I should have known this sooner.

I had no idea.
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« Reply #126 on: July 30, 2014, 01:07:29 PM »

Hell no!  I need my in-state tuition!
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« Reply #127 on: July 30, 2014, 05:44:08 PM »

Yeah, hows that going to work.  Maybe there will be an extra-state agency, but most likely not.
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« Reply #128 on: July 30, 2014, 06:16:13 PM »

Yeah, hows that going to work.  Maybe there will be an extra-state agency, but most likely not.

Many states have reciprocal arrangements for university tuition. Sometimes there are unilateral discounts. There's no reason that a split CA wouldn't come to some arrangement.
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« Reply #129 on: July 31, 2014, 12:34:00 PM »

Although I understand districting and potential candidates/races out of splitting CA is like catnip to us election junkies, this thread just grates to say so many people giving serious discussion over such unbelievably bad proposal.

There, I said it. I'll stop being a buzzkill for now. Tongue
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« Reply #130 on: September 13, 2014, 04:24:12 AM »

And it fails to qualify.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/12/6702457/six-californias-initiative-fails.html
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« Reply #131 on: September 13, 2014, 04:29:53 AM »

So more than a third of their signatures were fake? LOL
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« Reply #132 on: September 13, 2014, 05:45:19 AM »

So more than a third of their signatures were fake? LOL

More likely they were a combination of unregistered and mis-registered voters. There was a petition drive earlier this year to put an amendment for independent redistricting on the IL ballot. Over 500K signatures were submitted, and 300K were needed. A random check of 5% of the signatures showed that only 45% were valid, which meant that the petition would end up short if a full count was done. The group later withdrew from the legal fight to put it on the ballot.

A breakdown of the invalid signatures looked like this:
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If CA has rules about signatures like IL, it's not surprising that a third were invalid. There's a reason that experts recommend collecting two to three times the number of signatures required. A lot of people don't know if they are registered to vote and if they are what address is their voting address, especially for those who have moved since the last time they voted.
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