More precisely:
“15% of the number of votes cast for candidates for that office at the last preceding election in the electoral district of the elected official.”
Number crunching:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Maine_gubernatorial_election
There were 676,819 votes in that election.
15% of that is 101,523 signatures needed.
Uggh, long way to gop,then- thanks for crunching the numbers- I never wax good at math. I think they only have a certain number of days to get them too if I recall?