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Voters Say No To Slots in Guam

Guam voters are very clear on this for the second time – they don’t want slots on the island. With a very small voter turnout, only roughly 44% showed up, more than 60% of them said they were opposed to legalizing slots in the country. So where does this leave the racetrack?

It is likely that Guam Greyhound will attempt again to get the voters to approve slots for them, however, if they want to they have to start from scratch to get the initiative on the ballot again. It isn’t as if they can just keep trying, they have to go through the whole process each and every time they attempt to get slots legalized.

Guam’s voters said no once before to the slots, they told the track in November of 2006 that they weren’t having any of it, and now they have spoken again. Current results of the slots proposition showed that 13,259 voted against the slots with only 7,774 voting for it.

For the slots proposal to get on the ballot again, they will have to gather another 5,000 signatures of registered voters to get it back on the ballot. If you assume that everyone who signed it the first time voted for it, then they have not reached the majority of the population with their attempts to get the slots approved.

If they choose to try again, they can attempt to get on the ballot for November. It is not known if they will try again for the slots, but if they do, be assured that the opposition will be ready and waiting for them once again.
 

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