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Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- The astir costly ballot proposition gamble successful U.S. past went bust Tuesday arsenic California voters overwhelmingly rejected sports betting, shooting down initiatives by Native American tribes and the gaming industry.
The 2 groups raised astir $600 cardinal successful competing efforts to grow gambling and effort to seizure a portion of a imaginable cardinal dollar marketplace successful the nation's astir populous state. But voters did not privation a portion of that action.
Supporters and opponents of the dueling measures flooded voters with a blast of advertisements connected propositions that would person legalized sports gambling by allowing it astatine tribal casinos and equine tracks oregon done mobile and online wagering.
The wealth raised and spent much than doubled the grounds magnitude spent successful 2020 by Uber, Lyft and different app-based ride-hailing and transportation services to forestall drivers from becoming employees eligible for benefits and occupation protection.
Still, preelection polls showed some ballot measures faced an uphill combat to triumph a majority. More than 30 different states let sports betting, but gambling successful California is presently constricted to Native American casinos, equine tracks, paper rooms and the authorities lottery.
Proponents of the 2 initiatives projected antithetic ways to connection sports gambling and each touted different benefits they said would travel to the authorities if their measurement was approved.
Proposition 26 would let casinos and the state's 4 equine tracks to connection sports betting successful person. The inaugural bankrolled by a conjugation of tribes would besides let roulette and dice games astatine casinos. A 10% taxation would assistance wage for enforcement of gambling laws and programs to assistance gambling addicts.
Proposition 27 would would let online and mobile sports betting for adults. Large gaming companies would person to spouse with a people progressive successful gambling oregon tribes could participate the marketplace connected their own. That measurement was backed by DraftKings, BetMGM, FanDuel -- the second is the authoritative likelihood supplier for The Associated Press -- arsenic good arsenic different nationalist sports betting operators and a fewer tribes.
The inaugural was being promoted for the backing it promised to funnel done taxation revenues to assistance the homeless, the mentally sick and and poorer tribes that haven't been enriched by casinos.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office recovered some initiatives would summation authorities revenues but it was unclear by however much. Proposition 26 could bring successful tens of millions of dollars portion Proposition 27 could bring successful hundreds of millions, the bureau said.
However, that gross could beryllium offset if radical walk wealth connected sports gambling alternatively of buying oregon buying lottery tickets. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom didn't instrumentality a presumption connected either connection but said Proposition 27 was "not a stateless initiative.''
The California Republican Party opposed some proposals. State Democrats opposed Proposition 27, but were neutral connected Proposition 26. Major League Baseball backed Proposition 27.
The No connected Prop 26 campaign, funded mostly by paper rooms that basal to suffer out, said the measurement would springiness a fistful of affluent and almighty tribes "a virtual monopoly connected each gaming successful California.''
The No connected 27 committee said the connection was based connected deceptive promises and said the gaming companies down it "didn't constitute it for the homeless, they wrote it for themselves.''
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