Majority Rules No Slot Machines

Before Election Day a poll was taken that said the proposal to legalize slot machines might fail, but if it did it would only be by a small margin. The survey said that 53% of those that had an opinion said that they would vote against the legalization of the slot machines. Roughly 40% said they would vote to legalize the slot machines, and 5% did not know how they would vote.

Jackie Marati, an anti-slot machines spokesperson said that she was “delighted that the survey showed voters [were] leaning toward rejecting slot machines on the ballot.”

Well, she got her wish, and the poll was pretty dead on. Less than 4,000 votes decided the slot machine measure, with a little more than 20,000 voting to keep slot machines illegal and slightly more than 16,000 voting to legalize them. The group against the slot machines thought that this was a moral victory for the island, and this showed the measure of the character of the people who lived there. Those that were for the slot machines said that they would continue to plug along, trying other ways of expanding not only Guam Greyhound but also the island of Guam.

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