Alabama Fighting Over Greenetrack 

The battle continues in Alabama over whether or not the electronic bingo games in the state are legal or not. Although most residents admit they don’t care one way or the other about the slot machines and bingo games – there are some who feel very strongly about it. Most residents say that they are just sick of their government officials talking about and fighting over it. 

The Governor, Bob Riley, has seen the courts rule in his favor and decide that the bingo games are in fact, slot machines, and should be removed from the state. The courts said that the bingo games are pen and paper approved games, not slot machines. The bingo halls are fighting this as they say that the paper bingo is completely different from the electronic games and doesn’t bring in nearly as much money. They also say that the bingo machines are not slot machines so they are legal. Well, the governor and the courts disagree and they ordered Greenetrack to close its doors. 

Then State Senator Bobby Singleton said that they would thwart any attempt by the governor to seize the slot machines and said that the Greenetrack’s owners had the right to deputize men to stop them from coming onto their property and seizing the machines. He said it was their right to stop the raid. 

But the Commander of the Task Force that the governor brought in for this said that all bingo operations that had the slot machines had to stop using them and that Greenetrack needed to shut down the slot machines or they needed to shut down.