RETURN OF VOTES CAST – NOVEMBER 2, 2021 – REFERENDUM ELECTION AND MUNICIPAL ELECTION
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the City of Calais, in the County of Washington, qualified by the Constitution to vote, said City, on Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the inhabitants gave their votes upon the following. The same were received, sorted, counted and declared in open meeting, by the Warden who presided and in the presence of the Ward Clerk, who formed a list of the candidates and referendum questions voted for and against and made records thereof in the presence of the Warden in open meeting sealed up the copies of said records as appears by copies of said lists, duly attested by the Warden and Ward Clerk, and returned to the City Clerk of said Calais on the 2nd day of November, 2021, the same being within twenty-four hours of said meeting.
The total Number of ballots cast: State 705 Municipal 706
QUESTION 1: CITIZEN INITIATIVE
Do you want to ban the construction of high-impact electric transmission lines in the Upper Kennebec Region and to require the Legislature to approve all other such projects anywhere in Maine, both retroactively to 2020, and to require the Legislature, retroactively to 2014, to approve by a two-thirds vote such projects using public land?
YES 340 NO 351 BLANK 14
QUESTION 2: BOND ISSUE
Do you favor a $100,000,000 bond issue to build or improve roads, bridges, railroads, airports, transit facilities and ports and make other transportation investments, to be used to leverage an estimated $253,000,000 in federal and other funds?
QUESTIONS 3: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Do you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of the own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being?
YES 422 NO 272 BLANK 11
MUNICIPAL BALLOT
Macdonald, James 397
Beale, Elery 349
Moreside, C Edward 331
School Committee – 3 Year – Vote for One
Jansen, Nils Peter 465
School Committee – 1 Year Vote for One
Niles, Christopher 355
Beale, Rebecca 271
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