The history professor Luis Agrait said to CNN that "a large number of ballots—one-third of all votes cast—were left blank on the question of preferred alternative status. If you assume those blank votes are anti-statehood votes, the true result for the statehood option would be less than 50%."

You can see here how the votes break down. Notice the large number of blank ballots.

Choice                                          Votes             %
Referendum passed Statehood    834,191       61.16
Free Association                           454,768       33.34
Independence                                74,895         5.49
Valid votes                                1,363,854        72.59
Invalid/blank votes                       515,115        27.41
Total                                         1,878,969      100
Registered voters/turnout         2,402,941        78.19

The problem is that you assume every invalid vote is against, rather thst the more probable case that the distribution is similar to the valid votes.

there were only two questions on the ballot and thw whole thing was specifically about this issue. Why would voters that support statehood not have answered the second question? 

I know there was a political party, dont remember which one, on the island asking voters to leave the question blank because it didnt offer another option they wanted on the ballot. 

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The history professor Luis Agrait said to CNN that "a large number of ballots—one-third of all votes cast—were left blank on the question of preferred alternative status. If you assume those blank votes are anti-statehood votes, the true result for the statehood option would be less than 50%."

You can see here how the votes break down. Notice the large number of blank ballots.

Choice                                          Votes             %
Referendum passed Statehood    834,191       61.16
Free Association                           454,768       33.34
Independence                                74,895         5.49
Valid votes                                1,363,854        72.59
Invalid/blank votes                       515,115        27.41
Total                                         1,878,969      100
Registered voters/turnout         2,402,941        78.19

The problem is that you assume every invalid vote is against, rather thst the more probable case that the distribution is similar to the valid votes.

there were only two questions on the ballot and thw whole thing was specifically about this issue. Why would voters that support statehood not have answered the second question? 

I know there was a political party, dont remember which one, on the island asking voters to leave the question blank because it didnt offer another option they wanted on the ballot. 

That was the pro-ELA party, the PPD.

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It's all up to the Puerto Rican majority to me. But having it as a state would be pretty cool (although what about all the uneducated Texans who are super racist against Latino people? Should shake things up...)

(If there are any Texans out there reading this who aren't like that, I don't mean to suggest that all Texans are like this, just an awful lot of them.)

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North Texas is what you are describing.

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You know how I wanted statehood and all that?

You know what? F*ck it. There's a bill in Congress that wants to appoint a council of sorts that will do whatever Congress says, and it will have absolute power over our economy and mayor laws. 3 Puerto Ricans and 2 Americans will be that body. In return, we get $3 billion dollars, but no one buys my autonomy.

Until the USA says no to that stupid bill, Im becoming a temporary independentista. It all depends on Wednesday's vote.

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Local Council Member(April 24-August 11)

Court Justice of TSP(August 15-December 7)

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"The 1% is like a 1% battery charge. It will die out if it is not charged(the charge is the 99%). But if you don't charge it, it will die for sure, sooner or later"
- Me (2001- Present)

"Change is the world's blood"
- Me (2001-Present)

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