Three members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board resigned in protest over the paper’s owner blocking the board from endorsing a candidate in tomorrow’s presidential election.

Nearly 2,000 people unsubscribed to the paper in the wake of the decision, according to media reports. The paper did not respond to a request for comment.

Billionaire owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong – the county’s wealthiest resident, per the Business Journal’s research – said that his decision not to offer readers a recommendation would be less divisive in a tumultuous election year, reported a story on the Times website.

“I have no regrets whatsoever. In fact, I think it was exactly the right decision,” Soon-Shiong said in an interview with the El Segundo-based newspaper on Oct. 25. “The process was (to decide): how do we actually best inform our readers? And there could be nobody better than us who try to sift the facts from fiction” while leaving it to readers to make their own final decision.

He said he feared that picking one candidate would only exacerbate the already deep divisions in the country, according to the story.

Editorials Editor Mariel Garza resigned Oct. 23 because of the decision. Editorial board members Robert Greene and Karin Klein tendered their resignations from The Times the following day.

“How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then fail to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger – who we previously endorsed for the U.S. Senate?” Garza wrote in her letter of resignation to Times Executive Editor Terry Tang, according to the paper. “The non-endorsement undermines the integrity of the editorial board and every single endorsement we make, down to school board races.”

At The Times, the eight-member editorial board is overseen by Tang, though Garza led day-to-day operations. Soon-Shiong sits on the board.