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Puerto Rico Overwhelmingly Votes On U.S. Statehood In Non-Binding Referendum

The debt-racked territory voted to become the 51st state in 2012, but Congress never picked up the result. Puerto Rico voted again Sunday and partial results show most voters support U.S. statehood.
A woman exits the voting booth in San Juan during Puerto Rico's nonbinding referendum Sunday. Puerto Rican voters are weighing whether to ask Congress for statehood. / Carlos Giusti / Shutterstock.com

Updated at 5:52 p.m.

Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly voted for U.S. statehood for their island in a non-binding referendum on Sunday.

The Associated Press reports that only partial results are in but a low turnout and boycott by several opposition parties calls into question the validity of the non-binding

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