Two weeks ago, Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston told the anti-casino group Fair Play for Arkansas that the initiative was dead. And secondly, the party supporting it failed to submit enough signatures to qualify. One of them is that the Arkansas Board of Election Commissioners rejected its ballot title.
The amendment, which would have removed the county as one of the four legal in-state sites for casino gambling, will not be voted on for two reasons.
After a constitutional amendment was struck from Arkansas’ November 8 general election ballot, the way has now been cleared for Cherokee Nation Businesses to expedite work on a $225 million casino resort on newly purchased land in Pope County.
