Florida: Gambling initiatives race a short calendar

Florida: Gambling initiatives race a short calendar

Article brief provided by Florida Politics
  • Scott Powers, Florida Politics
October 13, 2021 6:39 PM
  • Scott Powers, Florida Politics

Time and money are in short supply as organizers try to reach the 2022 ballot.
Gambling advocates racing to place two constitutional amendments on the 2022 ballot are at the point where they’ll have to be collecting about 100,000 petition signatures per week — each — through the rest of 2021.

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Get ready for the hard push, Florida.

If a campaign committee backed by national daily fantasy sports companies and another backed by a Las Vegas casino company have any chance of making state-imposed requirements for valid petitions for their proposals go to voters in November 2022, they will have to inundate Florida voters with signature requests through the end of this year.