Broward slots dealt major blow by court
Concerned that dead people and phantom voters may have signed petitions to force a slot-machine vote, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday that a lower court should throw out the constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2004 if it can be proved that election law was broken.
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Do you know that:
- Blackjack originated in French casinos around the 1700's where it was called "vingt-et-un" (twenty-and-one) and has been in United States since the 1800's.
- One of the oldest casinos in Europe, at Baden Baden in Germany, was opened in 1748 by Edouard Benazet, who employed Parisian craftsmen to design the stylish rooms.
- By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
- Nevada is the oldest and largest legalized gaming center in the United States. Gaming was legalized in Nevada in 1931 in the middle of the Great Depression as a form of economic stimulant.
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