Talk:Political status of Puerto Rico/Archives/2012/November

Puerto Rico vote for U.S. Statehood

This article must be updated in relation to the 2O12 Puerto Rico Plebiscite requesting the Statehood and rejecting the current Territorial Status.

The first question on the plebiscite asked voters whether they want to maintain the current commonwealth status under the territorial clause of the U.S. Constitution or whether they prefer a nonterritorial option. A second question on the plebiscite had three status options: statehood, independence or free association.

The result of the 2012 referendum is that 54% of the population voted to change the territorial status quo, and 61.3% of the population voted for the statehood. Puerto Rico vote for U.S. Statehood

Puerto Rico provided a clear electoral mandate rejecting the present form of territorial status and requested to the U.S. Congress to admitted Puerto Rico to be the 51st State of the United States of America on the November 6, 2012 Plebiscite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.54.198.59 (talk) 01:52, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Whitehouse petition & spam blacklist

In this edit I removed a recent addition to the lead regarding an online petition. I attempted to insert a rewritten and cite-supported version of this into the 2012 plebiscite section, but one of the whitehouse.gov URLs I cited apparently is on the spam blacklist. My failed rewrite was:

On November 8, 2012, a petition appeared on the White House website asserting that 53.9% of Puerto Rican voters voted against maintaining the territory's political status and 61.15% opted for U.S. statehood if the territory's status were to be changed, and asking President Obama to "take the require action in congress to help Puerto Rico". As of 27 November 2012, the petition had 14,309 total signatures, with 10,691 signatures needed by December 8, 2012 to reach the 25,000 signature threshold for response from the White House.

Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:23, 27 November 2012 (UTC)