State election officials received a total of 56,000 signatures from the supporters of bringing slot machines to a vote at the November election. The problem is not all of them are valid signatures, and opponents say that this is just one more reason that the slot machines should not be allowed to come to Washington County. 

The group turned in the signatures for the slot machine initiative to be placed on the ballot and was confident that they would be approved. However, once the signatures were verified, it turned out that some of them were not valid, and left the group 13,000 short. Opponents were relieved that the slot machine initiative would not pass, until they found out that the tribe actually attempted this before - and they were only 2,500 short of their goal as the remaining 48,000 from the previous year were still valid. 

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is confident that now they have gotten the slot machine initiative on the ballot, that the voters will vote to approve it. Meanwhile, the group No Slots for ME is planning on collecting signatures outside the November polling stations. They are hoping that if they collect enough signatures they can get it reversed at the next election.

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