An Act To Clarify Local Referendum Ballots
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §2501, sub-§4 is enacted to read:
4. Ballot questions. Notwithstanding Title 21-A, section 906, subsection 7, municipal initiative and referendum questions must be listed on the ballot using sequential capital letters of the alphabet instead of sequential numbers.
Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §2528, sub-§6, ¶C, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 737, Pt. A, §2 and Pt. C, §106 and amended by PL 1989, c. 6; c. 9, §2; and c. 104, Pt. C, §§8 and 10, is further amended to read:
C. Any question or questions required by law to be submitted to a vote shall must be printed either below the list of candidates or on a separate ballot from the ballot listing candidates. Notwithstanding Title 21-A, section 906, subsection 7, the questions must be listed on the ballot using sequential capital letters of the alphabet instead of sequential numbers. If a separate ballot is used, this ballot must be a different color than the ballot listing candidates.
summary
This bill requires that municipal initiative and referendum questions be listed on election ballots using sequential capital letters of the alphabet rather than sequential numbers.