No Slot Machines for Guam

In what came as no surprise to anyone except maybe Guam Greyhound track, Prop A was defeated at the polls and slot machines will remain illegal at the track. With more than 60% voting to oppose slot machines, one will wonder if the track will take the hint this time or keep pushing for more slot machines.

The special election to fill the legislative vacancy caused by the death of Antonio Unpingco seemed the perfect forum for Guam Greyhound to try and get their slot machines approved. The opposition felt that it was neither the time nor place for such a vote, and argued that with the short time span of notification they couldn’t properly fight the issue on the ballot.

Never fear, they obviously didn’t need to. The Guam voters were more than clear in that they do not want slot machines now or ever. They also voted in Democrat Benjamin Cruz into the vacancy left by Unpingco, who said that he would “honor his memory” in all that he did while in office.

The special election actually saw very low voter turnout, with some precincts showing less than half of their voters participating. By the end of the day, only slightly more than 44% of the island’s voters chose to vote on the slot machine proposal which could be why the opposition won by such a large margin.

Before the votes were counted, Cruz said that he was disappointed in the lack of interest in whether or not slot machines were legalized, he said he would have hoped that people were more concerned with what was going on in reference to the slots. Cruz was opposed to the slot machines, and was glad that the proposal didn’t pass.



 

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