BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 23, 2020
A Maine judge has kicked the question of whether some signatures for a referendum aimed at killing Central Maine Power’s proposed corridor are invalid back to Secretary of State Matt Dunlap after two people said their names were forged. The Monday order by Superior Court judge Michaela Murphy gives Dunlap’s office until April 1 to decide whether signatures gathered by opponents of the $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect project are illegitimate after an ally of the utility brought a lawsuit earlier this month.