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Lawsuit Alleges Fraud in Florida Slots Petition Drive

TALLAHASSEE, Florida – As reported by the Associated Press: "A lawsuit filed this week alleges that thousands of signatures submitted to get a gambling measure on the November ballot in Florida were forged, some with the names of dead people.

"The accusation by the Humane Society of the United States, an anti-gambling group and a greyhound group targets Secretary of State Glenda Hood, several local elections supervisors and Floridians for a Level Playing Field.

"…In the lawsuit, the gambling opponents say they talked to nearly 5,300 of the 104,000 people whose names were on petitions submitted by the campaign in Broward County.

"More than two-thirds 'stated unequivocally that they did not sign any petition in support of the slots initiative,' the lawsuit says. In addition, as many as 33 people purported to sign the petition in Broward County were dead, according to the suit."

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