Alex Titcomb, the lead petitioner for the Voter ID for Maine proposal, said volunteers for the grassroots effort collected more than 165,000 signatures to put the question on the ballot, a majority of them during last Tuesday's presidential election.

A citizen ballot initiative launched by a local conservative political action committee is aiming to put a voter identification law on Maine’s ballot next year, as the campaign said it has enough signatures after petitioning on Election Day.

The citizen-initiated referendum question would ask whether people should be required to show photo identification in order to vote in Maine.