November Brings Issues to Light 

Maine voters have a few things on their mind these days as they know that November is coming and they are going to have to make some decisions regarding various money making opportunities within the state. Two of the issues on the ballot are directly related to slot machines and how they are going to be related to the state. Penobscot County voters are going to have an additional item to deal with that deals with the slot machines as well, which makes their ballot even more of an issue for them. 

The first question is whether or not they are going to allow slot machines to come to a harness racing track in Biddeford, or possibly another community, that is located within 25 miles of Scarborough Downs. They also have to decide whether or not to bring in slot machines to Washington County, with the agreement that the funds from all of the slot machines, no matter where located, are going to support specific state and local programs. 

Then they have to decide if they want to allow slot machines and table games to come into Lewiston, and if so that the money generated from those slot machines would go to the state once again. In Penobscot County they have to make the additional decision as to whether or not they want to bring in table games at Hollywood Slots. The location already offers the slots, but they have to decide if an expansion of gaming is where they want to be.