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Maine Question 3, Transportation Infrastructure and Job Creation Bond Measure (June 2010)
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| Topic Bond issues and Highways and bridges |
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| Type Bond issue |
Origin |
Maine Question 3 was on the ballot as a bond issue in Maine on June 8, 2010. It was approved.
A "yes" vote supported authorizing a $47.8 million bond issue to create jobs through improvements to Maine’s highways, railroads, and marine facilities, and allocating $4 million from a 2009 transportation bond for rail projects. |
A "no" vote opposed authorizing a $47.8 million bond issue to create jobs through improvements to Maine’s highways, railroads, and marine facilities, and allocating $4 million from a 2009 transportation bond for rail projects. |
Election results
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183,978 | 58.14% | ||
| No | 132,439 | 41.86% | ||
Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Question 3 was as follows:
| “ | Do you favor a $47,800,000 bond issue to create jobs in Maine through improvements to highways, railroads and marine facilities, including port and harbor structures, and specifying the allocation of $4,000,000 of the transportation bond approved by voters in November 2009 to be used for capital rail purposes? | ” |
Path to the ballot
In Maine, voter approval is required for state bond issues that exceed $2 million, with exceptions to bonds for the purpose of suppressing insurrection, repelling invasion, or for purposes of war, as well as for temporary loans paid out of money raised by taxation during the fiscal year which they are made, or for loans to be paid within 12 months with federal transportation funds.
A two thirds majority (66.67%) vote is required during one legislative session for the Maine State Legislature to place a bond issue on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 101 votes in the Maine House of Representatives and 24 votes in the Maine State Senate, assuming no vacancies. State bond issues require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
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