A petition to bring commercial casinos to Nebraska has fallen in need of the specified selection of valid signatures. The goal was to place the problem at the November ballot.

The campaign, Keep the money in Nebraska, needed 117,188 valid signatures, or 10 percent of registered voters. They ended up handing over between 120,000 and 130,000. However, consistent with a report from The Columbus Telegram, state officials rejected nearly 42,000 of the signatures collected.

The reason was that greater than 20,000 individuals who signed the petition weren’t registered to vote in either Nebraska or the county listed at the petition sheet they signed. Even though that wasn’t a problem, greater than 4,000 signatures were duplicates.

About $1.35 million reportedly was spent at the casino campaign, and Keep the cash in Nebraska worked for 10 months gathering signatures. The last time Nebraska voters got to weigh in on casinos was a few decade ago.

An estimated $400 million is spent every year by residents at out-of-state casinos.

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