Casino gambling issue on track to win, poll says

YOUNGSTOWN — Registered voters in Northeast Ohio strongly favor slot machines at horse racetracks and a constitutional amendment to build four gambling casinos in the state, according to an Ohio Newspaper Poll.

Northeast Ohio is second only to the southwest part of the state in geographical regions with the strongest support for both gambling initiatives, according to the poll.

“This area of Ohio has seen gambling money leave the state” and go to Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort in Chester, W.Va., said state Rep. Linda Bolon of Columbiana, D-1st. “When I talk to people about gambling initiatives, they want it put in places where there’s already gambling,” the seven horse racetracks in Ohio.

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