California Secretary of State, Shirley Weber has given the green light to the Calexit initiative, and signatures are now being collected.
If 55% of residents support the idea in a referendum, California could gain independence.
A “Calexit” initiative to allow California to secede from the United States has been cleared to legally gather signatures.
If passed, the proposed measure — “Calexit,” a nod to the Brexit vote in the UK — would be on the ballot in 2028 and ask voters: “Should California leave the United States and become a free and independent country?”
For the measure to pass, at least 50% of registered voters must participate in the election, and at least 55% — or more than 500,000 people, must vote “yes” by July 22.
Should that happen, it would trigger “a vote of no confidence in the United States of America” and “expression of the will of the people of California” to become an independent country.
Then a 20-member commission would be created to study the viability of California operating as an independent state in 2027 and to publish a report the following year. New York Post
