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Days after hook-up equality proponents turned in petitions to the Maine secretary of submit's office to put the question on the November ballot, both supporters and opponents of the determine are gearing up for a political fight. Again.
On Jan. 26, supporters turned in petitions with 105,000 signatures, not quite double the 57,000 signatures required to put a citizens initiative on the ballot.
This is not the first time a nuptials equality proposal has come before voters. In 2009, opponents successfully mounted a citizens taboo of a gay marriage law passed by the Legislature.
This time, gay marriage supporters said, they're dauntless of victory. For one, they point to internal polling that indicates 54 percent of Mainers strut a marriage equality law, compared to 47 percent at this same point in 2009. In voting that year, however, those numbers essentially swapped, with 47 voting in favor of the law and 53 percent voting to rescindment it.
Source: Seacoastonline.com