Signatures stream into Augusta on 2016 referendum deadline day

Source: Bangor Daily News

It’s looking like Maine will have five major referendums on the November 2016 ballot, deciding on marijuana legalization, increasing K-12 funding, a new casino, increasing the minimum wage and establishing a statewide ranked-choice voting system.

Monday is the deadline for citizen initiative efforts to submit more than 61,000 signatures to the state to qualify for the 2016 ballot.

Perhaps the most significant development on deadline day was that backers of a controversial effort for a casino in York County have told Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap’s office that they have enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, according to Dunlap spokeswoman Kristen Muszynski.

That’s not final: Dunlap’s office will have 30 days to certify the signatures for the effort, and questions have been raised about the validity of many of the casino signatures, which were gathered in just over a month by people who were paid as much as $10 per signature.

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An the teabagger/Lepuke anti-welfare ballot initiative fucking failed



and the casino vote will fail at the ballot box.

yup