SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Voters in Del Norte and Tehama counties vote Tuesday on Measure A, an advisory question that asks each county’s board of supervisors to join a wider effort to form a 51st state named Jefferson. Elected officials in Glenn, Modoc, Siskiyou and Yuba counties already have voted to join the movement.

The steps to secede are laid out in the U.S. Constitution. The last state to secede was West Virginia in 1863. The Northern California effort relies on a legal strategy that supporters hope will lead either to secession or greater representation in the California Legislature.

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