MegaSweeps are Slot Machines

An Alabama Supreme Court Judge has determined that the Quincy’s MegaSweeps sweepstakes games are indeed slot machines. The Birmingham dog track had been operating the slot machines and bringing in quite a lot of revenue for the track. The track operator says that they cannot continue to operate without the “slot machines” and will have to start laying people off.

Milton McGregor, the operator of the track, said that by ruling them slot machines and thereby making them illegal, the track would have to lay off about 250 people at the track. He said they cannot afford to have them work there without the revenue that was coming from the slot machines.

The court refused to reconsider a decision it made last month saying that they were slot machines, and would not comment on the decision either. They said that the slot machines must be shut down immediately. The track’s attorneys and also the attorney for Innovative Sweepstakes Systems, the supplier of the slot machines, filed papers in Birmingham saying that they would comply immediately and that the slot machines would be removed from Alabama.

The way people would play the slot machines was through a card that they could purchase that would give them computer time. They got sweepstakes entries each time they purchased the cards. The problem was with the card readers which resembled slot machines and therefore were illegal.


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