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Missouri to Vote on Legalizing Sports Betting in November
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8/14/2024
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All right, so we are approaching the final quarter of the year in the fall, Jim.
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And we've gone through this entire year of sports betting, and it has been crickets for
00:14
legalizing sports betting at a lot of the states that still do not have it legal, especially
00:19
in Texas.
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We just haven't heard all that much.
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Missouri started to make some noise, and we were a little skeptical as to whether or not
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this would actually get done.
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But here we go.
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Sports betting in November on the ballot in Missouri.
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Jim, is there a chance that this goes through?
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If so, this will be our big sports betting state of the year.
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Yeah, and to your point, Craig, this really isn't a time in the year where we're talking
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about states legalizing sports betting.
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But we have two potentially here with Missouri and Nebraska, which we'll get to in a couple
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of minutes.
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So yesterday, the Secretary of State's office in Missouri announced that the path to legalizing
01:05
Missouri sports betting will be on the ballot upcoming in November.
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The voters there will get the chance to legalize sports betting after a couple of failed attempts
01:16
in the legislature the last couple of years.
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The Secretary of State's office said that there was a sufficient number of signatures
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on a petition.
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The group backing this effort gave in about 340,000 signatures, and they needed 170,000
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to be verified.
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So obviously, they're taking a large sample and running some percentages, and that all
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came to fruition.
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So Missouri bettors will get the opportunity to legalize sports betting on the ballot in
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November.
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Now, this process has been going on since the fall.
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DraftKings, FanDuel, both involved in this process, they've spent about $6.5 million
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on this effort to get that legalizing sports betting question on the ballot in Missouri.
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So how this would work would be a 10% tax rate on sports betting revenue, and the casinos
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and the professional sports teams in the state would have the ability to have in-person and
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online wagering.
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There's 13 casinos, six sports teams, and the state gaming commission would also be
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allowed to issue two untethered sports betting licenses there.
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This state, Missouri, has always been a hot topic over the last couple of years.
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The push to legalize sports betting there passed the House in both 2022 and 2023, but
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ultimately met its demise in the Senate with Senator Denny Hoskins, who was trying to tie
03:03
it to a VLT, a video lottery terminal bill that just didn't gain much support, and it
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didn't really even come up all that much this last cycle in 2024.
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So a couple of failed attempts through the legislature, but now we see sports betting
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will land on the ballot in Missouri coming up in November.
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