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While Ohio voters are bombarded with the Earn and Learn
campaign pushing the legalization of slot machines in Ohio, the state
continues to crack down on the use of slot machine style video gaming
machines. The Ohio attorney general’s office made an announcement recently
that all of these machines must be removed from bars throughout the state.
Many local bars voluntarily removed these controversial machines from their
premises while other bars continued to take in profits while the issue was
appealed. Now, the state was able to prove that these slot machine type
gaming devices rely on chance rather than skill to determine payout and
prize. Though some argued that games like “tic-tac-fruit” used skill, the
state proved that the machines were programmed to payout only a certain
percent of the intake no mater how skillful the player.
According to state laws, games that rely on skill to determine payout are
permissible while the slot machine style video gaming machines were in
direct defiance of state law. Now that the ruling is final, all bars are
mandated to remove the slot machines immediately. As a follow-up, liquor
control agents in the state will begin to conduct searches for these
machines in bars and establishments know to have previously operated the
devices.
One county’s sheriff’s department was positive that all of the bars within
his jurisdiction had complied with the legislation. All of this effort
though could be overturned if the slot machine legislation in Ohio, Issue 3,
passes in the Nov 7 elections.
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