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Gambling opponents are still upset that they lost when slots were legalized at the racetracks in South Florida. They had campaigned hard to stop any kind of expansion of gambling, and the slots that were legalized in Broward County were a blow to their cause.

The group, Floridians Against Expanded Gambling said that they are fundamentally opposed to the slots being legalized, and they think that the vote was illegal and the ballots should be thrown out. They say that the public should never have been allowed to vote on the issue at all.

Their argument is that thousands of the signatures on the petitions that were created to get the slots issue on the ballot were fraudulent, and therefore the vote was as well. They had tried to get the vote stopped completely, but the courts said that they refused to worry about it unless slots were legalized. Now that they have been, the courts are listening to them battle it out over it.

The group is fighting against Floridians for a Level Playing Field, who are pro-gambling and are fighting to keep the 2004 Constitutional Amendment from being thrown out. The lawyers on their side are saying that it is too late to raise the objections and that if the residents did not want slots they would not have approved them.
 

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