Missouri to Make Push for Legal Sports Betting in 2024

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00:00All right, so hold on a second, drum roll here, Pat, is it possible, is it possible

00:10we may have a new state legalizing sports betting in 2024?

00:17We're on the precipice of it, still some ways to go here, but we found out late last week,

00:22Friday, Saturday, over the weekend, which state is it, Pat, that's going to have this

00:26on the ballot, because this is telling me, at least 50-50 shot here, this happens.

00:30Yeah, so Missouri, we've been talking about this a lot the last three years, as we've

00:35seen the legislative sessions kind of peter out because of a senator who didn't want to

00:40let it through, but you know, we've followed a petition campaign all year to get sports

00:48betting on the ballot, it was led by the St. Louis Cardinals and other professional sports

00:51teams in Missouri, they turned in way more signatures than they needed back in May, and

00:58it took until August 13 to get certified on the ballot.

01:00Well, that was until August 21, when we saw a lawsuit pop up to, you know, challenge the

01:06certification process, and that hearing ended up being last week, because the Missouri ballot

01:12is finalized tomorrow, so this was a very kind of quick lawsuit we had to settle out,

01:18and the hearing was interesting, it was like seven hours long, I tuned in the whole thing,

01:22a lot of cross-examinations of the science of signatures and the certification process,

01:29there was a lot of interesting things I've never thought about in terms of signatures,

01:34because that's what the plaintiff said, was just a lot of these signatures are not valid,

01:39they should not count, so it should not be on the ballot.

01:43Well, the judge, he sided with the defendants, the Secretary of State, John Ashcroft, and said,

01:48you know what, this is the certification process, this is what you followed, we're going to trust it,

01:54you know, it's on the ballot, we'll see if there's, you know, any sort of, I'm losing on a word that

02:02I'm trying to think of, but an appeal, that's what I'm thinking of, which would be an interesting,

02:07you know, thing now that the ballot finalizes tomorrow, so it's going to be on the ballot in November.

02:13What happens then if it's appealed and something else happens, you know, a lot of things, I'm not a

02:17lawyer, I don't know kind of the process after that, but again, we've got a recent poll that says

02:2250 percent of Missourians want sports betting, 50 percent of the voters, another 21 percent are

02:29undecided, and the professor who was kind of attached to that poll at St. Louis University said

02:34this ballot question has a very good chance of passing, so, you know, we're going to see

02:41in less than two months if voters in Missouri want sports betting, and from there we'll go

02:47and see what happens.