Will Dixon Get Slot Machines?

Magna Entertainment is hoping that the voters of Dixon approve the horse racing complex that they wish to build in their fair town. They have made a lot of promises to the residents of the town, and are hoping that they see fit to build the $250 million complex so that they can proceed.

The company has promised to handle all concerns that the residents have brought up – things like traffic, giving money to the town, improving the quality of life in the town, and making sure that they provide quality, family entertainment. In what is somewhat of a switch for the company, they are doing it without slot machines, which they have at many of their complexes.

Although slot machines are currently not legal in Dixon, the company says that they are taking steps to ensure the future ability of the company to add them, and in the process they are looking into “alternative gaming” at the track instead. Basically what that means is that they are looking at bringing in slot machines, but they aren’t called that.

The machines that they want to bring in resemble slot machines, but are “instant racing machines.” They look like slot machines, and play like slot machines, but are actually pari-mutuel games that customers can bet on. The racing industry is lobbying to get them legalized at racetracks in Northern California, for they say that they will bring in much more income than the racing alone.




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