Ilustration of ballots on the Corsican flag. Corsicans cast their ballots July 6, 2003 in a referendum on limited autonomy from mainland France almost 30 years after a deadly gunbattle between separatists and police plunged the Mediterranean island into lawlessness. Around 191,000 voters are being asked whether they want to scrap two administrative departments and back changes that would give an assembly of locally elected politicians in the southwestern city of Ajaccio more say over tax, tourism and the environment.