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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.
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(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday June 12 2017, @02:16PM
Ah yes, vexillography, the grand art of flag design. SN's tribute to Sheldon Cooper's "Fun with Flags."
There's no great technical conundrum posed by placing a 51st star. The current flag has 8 rows of stars, but we could just revert to a 6-row design (as the 48-star flag had). Alternating rows of 8 and 9. 3*8+3*9=51. Easy. Done.
Though, if you wanted to, there's all sorts of innovative designs that have been proposed over the years. (Just search for 51-star flag. I was going to link an ABC story that came up on this topic, but the amount of scripts and ads and such to make it function make it offensive to me.)