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South florida oks slot machines { November 5 2004 }

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South Florida OKs Slot Machines Proposal
Friday November 5, 2004 12:46 PM

By JACKIE HALLIFAX

Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A proposal that would let voters decide whether to allow slot machines at race tracks and jai alai frontons in South Florida won approval after elections officials discovered thousands of absentee votes missed in an electronic tally on Election Day.

The vast majority of the 79,000 absentee ballots added late in Broward County approved the initiative Thursday. That made all the difference in the outcome, swamping the narrow lead that opponents had clung to since Tuesday.

State and local elections officials said the ballot oversight was due to human error in computer programming, not a technical glitch. A leader of No Casinos said opponents would ask Broward County for a re-count anyway, but Secretary of State Glenda Hood said that wasn't possible under state law.

Passage of Amendment 4 means Broward and Miami-Dade commissions can ask their voters in a referendum if they want to allow slot machines at seven tracks and jai alai frontons.

Floridians have opposed gambling measures on the ballot three times since 1978.

But the 2004 slots measure pledged tax revenues on slots to schools statewide and the sponsors gathered support from the teacher's union, groups representing school boards and administrators and former education commissioner Jim Horne. The only holdout was the Florida PTA.




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