Finally, in 2001, a referendum similar in scale to such happenings as the Domesday Book and the 2008 US Presidential Election was placed before Mississippi voters, the options being whether or whether not to change the flag. The proposed new flag would replace the Confederate Battle Flag with a "sleek" blue canton with twenty stars, nineteen of which would represent the commercial sponsors of Mississippi® and one which represented Mississippi itself, which was originally planned to be in the likeness of a scrotum if approved by voters.