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The Six Californias campaign submitted more than a million
signatures to the Secretary of State's office on Friday, but only
about 750,000 were counted as valid, the state elections agency said
on its website.
The campaign needed over 800,000 signatures to qualify for the
November 2016 ballot.
The idea of breaking up the nation's most populous state raised
bipartisan hackles, and opponents said it stood little chance of
gaining voter approval. But it gained national attention for the
changes it would have wrought in a state that ranks as the world's
eighth largest economy.
It also carried the possibility of upsetting the balance of power in
the U.S. Senate, where each state has two senators. But opponents
said that if California voters approved it, Congress would have been
unlikely to sign off on the plan.
(Reporting by Jennifer Chaussee in Berkeley, California, Editing by
Alex Dobuzinskis and Sandra Maler)
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