The Massachusetts Expand Slot Machine Gaming Initiative was a 2016 Massachusetts ballot measure. Also known as Question 1, it was an indirect initiated state statute question that would allow the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to issue an additional license for another slot machine parlor to exist in the state. The referendum question said that the extra slots parlor could only be permitted on a site that was at least 4 acres (1.6 ha) in size and located within 1,500 feet (460 m) of a racecourse.[2] The only location in the state where this would have applied was Suffolk Downs in East Boston.[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.
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Results
editThe measure was not approved, voting was 57% "no", 37% "yes", and 6% left blank.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Ballot Questions". Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ^ "QUESTION 1: Law Proposed by Initiative Petition". Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ Ebbert, Stephanie (October 26, 2016). "What would approving another slots parlor mean for Mass.?". Boston Globe. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
- ^ Bauter, Alison (September 12, 2016). "Here Are the Massachusetts Ballot Questions for November 2016". Beacon Hill Patch. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ "Statewide Ballot Questions — Statistics by Year: 2016". sec.state.ma.us. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
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