Jul 18 2008
N.C. Passes Video Slot Ban
RALEIGH - The state will ban a kind of video slot machine that has proliferated since legislators passed a ban on video poker in 2006.
The new games use terminals connected to remote computer servers and are based on a sweepstakes scheme. They take advantage of what legislators say was an unintentional loophole in the earlier law.
A bill the General Assembly passed Thursday afternoon, with only two dissenting votes in the House, closes that loophole and is on its way to the governor for his signature.
“We hope it will put an end to video poker once and for all,” said Melanie Wade Goodwin, a Richmond County Democrat who was on of the measure’s primary supporters.
Why is a responsible adult not allowed to play a video slot or video poker machine at an establishment that would choose to have them? When did we suddenly need a government nanny to tell us how we should or should not gamble? Write or call Representative Goodwin and ask her.
