Slot Machines are a Foul for the State

Residents in Ohio are stepping forward in droves to protest the addition of slot machines to racetracks in the state. They say that the governor and his legislators have gone against the will of the people and they want them to take back their decree that slot machines will now be allowed at the state tracks. They argue that no matter how much money they bring in they will still come at too high of a price
 
Governor Ted Strickland has decided to go against the will of the people and bring in the slot machines which he says will net $933 million for the state. He says that with a $3.2 billion budget shortfall this will enable them to keep programs that otherwise they would have had to cut. He says that under the 1972 Ohio Lottery Referendum slot machines are legal.
 
However, this is not really true. According to the people who wrote the law they never intended to have slot machines legalized in the state. They say that this was left up to the residents to vote them in for them to be legal. However, residents have voted several times against the legalization of slot machines, not for them. The Ohio Lottery Commission will be overseeing the slot machines, which upsets residents even more.
 
They say that the director of the lottery has already shown that this is not an agency to be trusted based on a traffic ticket received this past winter. According to them the director bought their way out of the ticket by giving the police free lottery tickets. True or not – who knows, but they say that this is all the evidence that they need to show that in a state where corruption is obviously apparent they don’t need any more of it through slot machines.

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