Voters Waiting for Slot Machine Results

The residents of Guam are eagerly anticipating the results of the voting yesterday on whether or not Prop B, the initiative to legalize slot machines at Guam Greyhound, was passed or not. An order released by the Supreme Court of Guam said that the results would be released to the public. Sorenson Television Systems fought an order that tried to keep the results of the slot machine measure to a limited few and won.

Since there is still a lawsuit pending from the Lina’la Sin Casino against the election commission noting that there were discrepancies and failures by the commission to follow the rules and regulations when the slot machine proposal was trying to get on the ballot, the Judge said he will rule after the elections as to whether the votes will count or not.

In the order from the court, the justices states that the decision “infringed upon the Election Commission’s duty to tabulate votes and upon tabulation, make such results available to the public.”

In either case, the people of Guam are glad to know that they will get to see the exact results of the slot machine measure, as they feel it is important to see how much of the island was for or against.
 

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