Stop Predatory Gambling

Deception lies at the core of the predatory gambling trade

by spgadmin

Ohio election officials have found that predatory gambling advocates used the signatures of deceased voters in their signature collection effort to put a referendum legalizing casinos on the November ballot. In this story, The Dayton Daily News reports:

The Montgomery County board ruled 48,326 of 82,624 signatures — 58 percent — invalid and sent petitions with potentially fraudulent signatures to the county prosecutor’s office for investigation. In Darke County, Becky Martin, deputy elections board director, saw the signature of her late father-in-law, James Martin, who died more than 25 years ago, on a petition. “I said, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ It was his address and everything. They’ll just stoop low to do anything,” she said.

As officials review the fraudulent signatures, they should also investigate the significant allegations that electronic gambling machines are deceptive and fraudulent. According to MIT Professor Dr. Natasha Schull, when you look at what these algorithms inside slot machines are doing, it’s a high tech version of “weighting the deck” or “loading the dice.” For you non-gamblers out there, that means the machines are cheating. Read about it in her Washington Post story here.