AUGUSTA, Maine — Mainers will vote this fall on whether to adopt a new model for the state flag or stick with the current design, and the design of the new model that will be up for consideration has been chosen.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows announced Monday that Gardiner resident Adam Lemeir's design was selected in the state flag redesign contest. There were over 400 submissions, including ones from other states and even other countries.
Requirements include a buff background with a pine tree in the middle and a blue five-pointed north star in the left corner.
The flag question will be question number five on the ballot come November.
"Those Mainers who are producing flags in homes and dooryards, displaying their idea of what the pine tree flag looks like, what the 1901 flag looks like, can and should continue to do so and do so proudly if and when voters vote yes on question five," Bellows says. "Those flags hanging in dooryards and displayed in homes will be the 1901 Maine state flag in its modern incarnation."
The secretary of state's office is now accepting public comment on the flag design, as well as four other referenda that will appear on the ballot in November.
Public comments are limited to 300 words and can be submitted online. Up to three comments for and three comments against each issue will be published in the citizen's guide, which will be available in mid-September.