Massachusetts Expand Slot Machine Gaming Initiative

Question 1

Massachusetts Authorization of a Second Slots Location Initiative

Results
	Votes	%
Yes	1,240,877	7001392600000000000♠39.26%
No	1,919,893	7001607400000000000♠60.74%
Valid votes	3,160,770	7001935500000000000♠93.55%
Invalid or blank votes	218,031	7000645000000000000♠6.45%
Total votes	3,378,801	100.00%
Registered voters/turnout	3,402,809	7001992900000000000♠99.29%

Source:^[1]

The Massachusetts Expand Slot Machine Gaming Initiative also known as Question 1 is an indirect initiated state statute question that would allow the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to issue and additional license for another slots parlor to exist in the state. The ballot question specifies that the additional slots parlor be licensed only on a property that is within 1,500 feet (460 m) of a racetrack and must be built on a parcel that is at least 4 acres (1.6 ha) in size.^[2] The only location in the state where this would currently apply is Suffolk Downs in East Boston, Massachusetts.^[3]

A "yes" vote would allow a second slots parlor to exist in Massachusetts.^[4]
A "no" vote would leave the current number of one slots parlor place.

Results

The measure was not approved.

References

↑ "Ballot Questions". Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
↑ "QUESTION 1: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition". Retrieved 2016-09-23.
↑ Ebbert, Stephanie (2016-10-26). "What would approving another slots parlor mean for Mass.?". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
↑ Bauter, Alison (2016-09-12). "Here Are the Massachusetts Ballot Questions for November 2016". Beacon Hill Patch. Retrieved 2016-09-23.

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