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Arkansas Lottery Foes Argue Law Would Lead to Casinos
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS --
Arkansas voters will decide on next week's ballot whether to institute a lottery, and opponents are saying a vote for a lottery is a vote for casinos. The state will decide whether to adopt a new state constitutional amendment which will authorize lotteries.
Presently, forty-two of the fifty United States have a state-run lottery. By population, almost ninety-four percent of American citizens live in an area with a legal lottery.
Lt. Governor Bill Halter, a proponent of the lottery, points out that no state has begun a lottery and then revoked it, proving the overall satisfaction with the process.
Still, Kansas voted years ago to create a lottery, and the law which approved that was used in recent years to give legal backing to the planned casinos in Kansas.
Arkansas has rejected a lottery amendment twice previously, but both times explicit language also allowed for development of casinos. Further, demographic changes as well as exposure to gambling, such as poker on television, have shifted attitudes toward gambling in general.
Halter estimates that the lottery would draw as much as $100 million a year in revenue for the state, an amount largely leaving for lotteries in neighboring states. Even the adversarial group Arkansas Advocates for Children and Family estimate tax income of $61 million.
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