Slot Machines are Popping Up

It is a state law that slot machines are only legal in one place, but there seems to be those that know how to get around that law. If you want slot machines you have to go to the reservation in Cherokee, but not if you know where else to go. You can also go to Garner and play slot machines, and no one is doing anything about it.

All you have to do is go to the 42 Business Center at any time day or night and give them your driver’s license. You get registered and then you put your money into a “recharge machine.” You then sit down in front of the computer, agree to the terms and conditions and choose what slot machine you want to play. All of the games that are offered are slot machines, but they are calling them something else.

They call them “internet sweepstakes” and because they are on the internet it is not gambling and therefore not illegal in North Carolina. They say that they are not technically mechanical slot machines, they are on the computer. They also don’t have random number generators like real slot machines, so you really don’t have any way of knowing what your chances are.

As you win, you get more money which gives you more time. As you lose you can put in more money to get more time. The location maintains that it is a sweepstakes, but State Representative Ray Rapp says that they are slot machines no matter how you look at them. He has been trying to no avail to shut them down.

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