Assuming that the initiative can collect the remaining necessary signatures in January, Florida voters are likely to be bombarded with campaigns on both sides of this issue.<\/p>\n
While supporters of the initiative say that giving voters control over gaming expansion will help preserve the intent of Florida\u2019s constitutional ban on gambling, there are also those who say it would only cause more confusion and lead to endless lawsuits over games that are currently considered legal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll this does is shift the issue from the Legislature to the courts,\u201d attorney Marc Dunbar told the Orlando Sentinel <\/em>last summer. \u201cIt\u2019s a parade of uncertainty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIf the proposal does appear on ballots in November, it will have one more major hurdle to clear. To pass a constitutional amendment, a supermajority of 60 percent of voters will have to come out in support of the measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Groups attempting to push a constitutional amendment to give voters control over gambling expansion in Florida have nearly collected enough signatures to put their proposal on the state ballot this November. The Voter Control of Gambling in Florida initiative had collected over 725,000 valid signatures, close to the 766,200 it would need to submit by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":66904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,13,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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