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2021 Maine Question 1 was a ballot question initiated by citizens of Maine that looked to block the construction of "high-impact" power lines in the Upper Kennebec Region of Maine, and to require a 2/3rds vote of the legislature in order to build "high-impact" power lines elsewhere in the state. 63,067 signatures were needed for the measure to be considered, and around 96,000 signatures were collected. However, only around 80,000 were deemed to be valid.

After the Maine State Legislature voted that it would not pass the bill, it was added to the ballot, along with 2 other ballot questions, and a state house special election in district 86.

Collection of Signatures
In late October of 2020, Tom Saviello, a former Maine State Senator, started a formal campaign to collect enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot. Maine’s signature requirement for citizen's initiatives is 10% of the votes in the last Maine election for governor. Mainers for Local Power, a group supporting the initiative, hired Revolution Field Strategies to collect signatures. After the 2020 election, the campaign reported collecting 23,000 signatures on election day alone. In mid-February, about 3 and a half months after the campaign started, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows reported that the campaign had collected enough valid votes for the initiative to be put onto the ballot.

Notable Endorsements
For:

Against:

Janet Mills, incumbent governor of Maine

Jennifer Granholm, United States Secretary of Energy

Bangor Daily News

VotenotoprotectMaine.com

Portland Press Herald

Election by County
=Description= This page is currently being used to write an article about Question 1 on the ballot in Maine in november of 2021.

notes while drafting article
^^^^ Yes
 * 1) bcf4ac = 50%
 * 2) 97f17e = 60%
 * 3) 5bea33 = 70%

^^^^ No
 * 1) 6d97e9 = 50%
 * 2) 4279e4 = 6o%
 * 3) 165ce6 = 70%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Maine_Question_1 (For graph of county votes)

https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_Question_1,_Electric_Transmission_Line_Restrictions_and_Legislative_Approval_Initiative_(2021)#Stages_of_this_initiative

https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2020-10-30/new-anti-cmp-corridor-campaign-can-begin-collecting-petition-signatures