Gaming ballot measures
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Gambling initiatives and ballot measures relate in some way to casino or other games of chance--to authorizing new casinos, making various games of chance legal or illegal and so on.
Gaming measures have appeared on the ballot in states with initiative or referendum.
Petition drives to collect signatures to place these measures on the ballot are virtually never conducted as grassroots efforts; rather, the petition drives are invariably funded as paid petition drives by casino or gaming interests who hope to build and profit from casinos if the voters approve the ballot measures authorizing them.
Under consideration
2010
Ohio Slot Machines Referendum (2010)
2009
Ohio Casino Initiative (2009)
California Proposition 1C (May 2009)
2008
Alaska Gaming Commission
Arkansas State Lottery Initiative
Colorado Initiative 121 (2008)
Maine Casino in Oxford County
Maryland Casino Measure
Missouri Gambling Loss Limits Initiative
Ohio Casino Measure
California Proposition 94
California Proposition 95
California Proposition 96
California Proposition 97
Didn't qualify for ballot
- California Internet Poker Statute
- Colorado Lottery Operation
- Alaska House Joint Resolution 2
- Maine Ban Slot Machines did not make ballot
2006
- Arkansas Expanded Gaming at Oaklawn
- Nebraska Constitutional Amendment Number 3
- Nebraska Proposition 421
- Ohio Ballot Measure 3
- Rhode Island Question 1
- South Dakota Repeal Video Lottery
2004
- California Proposition 68
- California Proposition 70
- Michigan Proposal 1
- Nebraska Amendment 3
- Nebraska Measure 417
- Nebraska Measure 419
- Nebraska Measure 420
- Oklahoma State Question No. 705
- Oklahoma State Question No. 706
2003
2002
Approved
- Arizona Proposition 202. $31 million was spent on both sides of this issue.
- Idaho Proposition 1.
- North Dakota Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 2 (General)
- Tennessee Constitutional Amendment 1
Defeated
2000
- Arkansas Amendment 5
- California Proposition 1A
- California Proposition 17
- California Proposition 20
- California Proposition 29
- South Dakota Amendment to Prohibit Video Lottery (2000)
- South Dakota Measure to Raise Maximum Bets (2000)
- Virginia Question 1
1998
- California Tribal-State Gaming Compact Initiative
- Minnesota Amendment 1
- Missouri Amendment 9
- New Jersey Question 2
- Oklahoma State Question 672
1996
Approved
- Alabama Amendment 4.
- Alabama Amendment 5. This was a legislative referral to allow Jefferson County to establish monetary bingo prizes by local law.
- Michigan Proposal E.
Defeated
1994
- Oklahoma Initiative 358
- Oklahoma State Question 658
- South Dakota Change the Lottery System Amendment (1994)
- Wyoming Local Option Gambling Initiative
1992
- Colorado Limited Gaming Act 1 (1992)
- Colorado Limited Gaming Act 2 (1992)
- Colorado Limited Gaming Act 3 (1992)
- Colorado Limited Gaming Act 4 (1992)
- South Dakota Repeal Video Lottery (1992)
- Utah County Option Initiative
1988
1984
1982
1958
- Utah Initiative A, failed. Would have allowed pari-mutuel horse race gambling.
