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Group sues to stop Ohio slots-at-tracks plan
by Rick Rouan
Friday, October 21, 2011 

The Ohio Roundtable filed a lawsuit Friday to stop video lottery terminals from being placed at Ohio horsetracks, alleging that the action violates the Ohio Constitution. 

Allowing video lottery terminals, basically slot machines, requires a constitutional amendment, not an executive order from Governor John Kasich or new administrative rules, said Rob Walgate, vice president of the Ohio Roundtable. 

“The Governor has failed to honor his oath of office to uphold the rule of law by abiding by the Constitution,” Walgate said in a release. 

According to its Web site, the Ohio Roundtable is a division of the American Policy Roundtable, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit education and research organization founded in 1980. 

The lawsuit may hold up plans by Wyomissing, Penn.-based Penn National Gaming Inc.    and others to move race tracks around the state. Penn National seeks to move its Beulah Park track in Columbus to Dayton. It would transform the former Delphi plant in north Dayton into a $200 million horsetrack and slot machine complex. 

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