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Bestbet Jacksonville’s stance on this issue in the form of an appeal is last May’s Florida Supreme Court decision concerning slots. The unanimous decision according to this report denied slot machines to a race track in Gretna, Gadsden County as well as other counties that already passed local referendums authorizing the expansion of Las Vegas slot machines. Duval was one county approving the expansion, leading bestbet Jacksonville to pursue slot machine gambling to its poker and simulcast wagering. According to Justice Charles Canady, “nothing in state gambling laws grants any authority to regulate slot machine gaming to any county,” in a direct quote included in the EasyMobileCasino.com article.
Judge Canady added, “The general power of non-charter counties to ‘carry on county government’ does not constitute authorization to conduct a referendum to approve slot machine gaming.”
The DBPR obviously views things in a different light. It has countered that those slot referendums in Duval and other Florida counties were not allowed due to a statewide 2004 constitutional amendment that was narrowly passed at that time. As an interesting sidebar included in this report, the same measure did legalize slots at existing jai-alai frontons and horse and dog tracks in Broward and Miami-Dade counties once the measure was approved by a county referendum, which it was.
