Does Equality Under the Law Apply to All Three Options on the Portland, Maine Homeless Shelter Ballot?

A rigged ballot in the homeless shelter planned for an Industrial Opportunity Zone?

a sheeple in front of a blackboard that says 2+2=5 Michal Matlon / Unsplash

Fore note: This is a follow-up story to Why Are Social Impact Investors Trying So Hard to Defeat Smaller Shelters for the Homeless?

According to the headline in NewsCenter Maine

Path towards 200-bed Homeless Services Center in Portland clears hurdles following referendum

The subtitle says “The ballot measure looking to reduce capacity of emergency shelters in the city to 50 beds failed, receiving 31% of the vote “

Point made!

Shelters limited to fifty beds in a room failed so that the project allowing 200 beds in a room can move ahead!

And therein lay the crux of the matter.

One might think from the headline that it was a two option- or a yes or no vote- such as a simple question: “ Do you want to limit the number of beds per room to fifty?”

Yes or No?