I saw my first vile anti-Vaxx referendum signs here in Maine today
The Stupid Anti-Vaxxers managed to get enough signatures to put it to a referendum vote (or in this case, a referenDUMB vote) here in Maine in early March.
https://www.maine.gov/sos/news/2019/vaccinationpeoplsveto.html
AUGUSTA – The people’s veto petition effort to repeal Public Law 154 (LD 798) “An Act To Protect Maine Children and Students from Preventable Diseases by Repealing Certain Exemptions from the Laws Governing Immunization Requirements,” has submitted the required number of valid signatures to qualify for the 2020 statewide referendum ballot, Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap confirmed today.
Proponents submitted 29,370 petitions with 95,871 signatures to the Elections Division on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019.
Staff members at the Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions have completed the process of certifying the petitions and have found 79,056 valid signatures of registered Maine voters, while 16,815 are not valid.
State law requires a minimum of 63,067 valid signatures, which is 10% of the total votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, for a successful people’s veto effort. As the effort has exceeded that threshold, the petition effort is deemed valid. The determination will be sent to Gov. Janet Mills to issue a proclamation declaring a public vote on the issue.
The vote must take place at the next statewide election that is not less than 60 days after the proclamation, which will be the March 3, 2020 presidential primary.
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We have whooping cough and measles outbreaks here in Maine - in 2019 and 2020.
Maine people are dying from influenza,
Fuck the anti-science kook fundies behind this.
Hopefully, enough pro-science Dems with shut this down on Primary Day.. (Trump is the only repug in the GOP primary here in Maine - lol)
Yup.
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bullshit initiatives and petitions.
Are much younger than I am and they all grew up after the vaccinations had mostly eradicated these diseases. So they think Measles, Mumps, etc. are all no big deal. Just wait until their teenage son gets the mumps and ends up sterile. How about their grandmother dying of the flu. One woman I know insists that eating organic food, mostly vegetarian, will protect her and her family. Her daughter frequents a barn and has not been immunized for tetanus. Heaven help her if she get an infected cut. They think Polio is easy-peasy. I was born in 1952 and I vividly remember my mother rushing my sister and me down to the school auditorium where they were offering the polio vaccine. I just liked the sugar cube! 
I also had a friend in kindergarten who had polio. Fortunately she was not hugely debilitated, but she had the disease nonetheless.
This anti-science stuff is so dangerous. Go get 'em Maine! And take out Susan Collins in the fall while you're at it.
