In a Maine ballot measure, the votes against gay marriage have taken the lead, with 51 percent of the vote.
With 28 percent of precincts reporting, it’s still too soon to call. But it’s worth noting that the numbers have flipped in favor of abolishing Maine’s gay marriage law. From the time the polls closed at 8 p.m. until just recently, the numbers had shown more votes to uphold gay marriage.
Votes for Question 1 would abolish the law, and votes against it would uphold gay marriage.
The high turnout — the city clerk in Bangor, for example, saw more voters than at a gubernatorial election — does, however, bode well for gay marriage.
