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posted by n1 on Monday June 12 2017, @09:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the join-the-club dept.

According to Fox News:

Puerto Rico's governor announced that the U.S. territory has overwhelmingly chosen statehood in a nonbinding referendum Sunday held amid a deep economic crisis that has sparked an exodus of islanders to the U.S. mainland.

Nearly half a million votes were cast for statehood, more than 7,600 for free association/independence and nearly 6,700 for independence, according to preliminary results. The participation rate was just 23 percent with roughly 2.26 million registered voters, leading opponents to question the validity of a vote that several parties had boycotted.

Also covered by AP.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:03AM (#524268)

    Puerto Ricans shoot themselves in the foot with a high-tech machine gun attached to an orange drone artificially intelligent enough to twit (yes, that twat)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @11:06AM (#524270)

    >nonbinding referendum

    D.C. has a better chance of getting statehood. Sometime around 2050.