Voters spoke with their ballots on Nov. 7 to fund billions for infrastructure, set new state energy policy and address governing-body political makeup in the off-year election, even with abortion rights a leading ballot issue.
In what was seen as a bellwether contest for giving ratepayers a greater say in power companies’ environmental policies, Maine voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to replace its two largest investor-owned electric utilities—Central Maine Power and Versant—with a statewide consumer-owned provider called Pine Tree Power Co.