Nebraska Casino Referendum Falls ShortTens Of Thousands Of Votes Deemed Invalid By State |
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A petition to bring commercial casinos to Nebraska has fallen short of the required number of valid signatures. The goal was to put the issue on the November ballot.
The campaign, Keep the Money in Nebraska, needed 117,188 valid signatures, or 10 percent of registered voters. They ended up turning in between 120,000 and 130,000. However, according to a report from The Columbus Telegram, state officials rejected nearly 42,000 of the signatures collected.
The reason was that more than 20,000 people who signed the petition weren’t registered to vote in either Nebraska or the county listed on the petition sheet they signed. Even if that wasn’t a problem, more than 4,000 signatures were duplicates.
About $1.35 million reportedly was spent on the casino campaign, and Keep the Money in Nebraska worked for 10 months gathering signatures. The last time Nebraska voters got to weigh in on casinos was about a decade ago.
An estimated $400 million is spent each year by residents at out-of-state casinos.
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