Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., a Republican who initially recommended combining the referendum vote with the primary election on Feb. 5 to save money, signed an executive order last week setting the vote for Nov. 6.
Closer to home, critics of Corbyn had set the vote as a decisive test for the new leader.
But a surge in signers from the eastern part of Switzerland, closest to Austria and considered the most conservative region, has forced the government to set the voting date for May 21.
Under the terms of a future devolution package for Scotland to be announced on Thursday, Holyrood will be given the right to set the voting age for its future elections.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency that regulates most private-sector labor relations, has set the voting day for February 15.
Similarly, in Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), he delivered the opinion of the court holding that the federal government was not entitled to set the voting age for state elections.
With the referendum vote now official, actual independence is expected to be declared July 9, when the peace agreement that set the stage for the vote expires.
The vote set the stage for a possible legal clash between the Legislature and the Palin administration, which threatened this week to go to court to quash the subpoenas for state workers.
That move has set the stage for votes Monday on four gun-related amendments to a spending bill that funds the Justice Department and several other federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation and NASA.
