State Supreme Court removes measure to split California into three states from November ballot

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5. +1 California has come up with some of the wackiest propositions

The ballot initiative process in CA has often been either ground-breaking or completely weird. The idea was good, to pass laws without going through the governor or legislature as long as citizens got enough signatures to put them on the ballot. But it often created some far-fetched proposals. That sometimes, with heavy, interest-group financed media promotion, passed. I remember ages ago when CA had on the ballot a proposition to ban what they were calling then "pay TV, an initiative funded largely by movie theater owners to not allow current films to be shown on a demand basis on TV. Basically, people were voting to give up their freedom of choice. It passed. Of course, it was completely unconstitutional and the State Supreme Court promptly threw it out.