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Alabama senator plans voter referendum bill on gambling legalisation

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Alabama State Senator Merika Coleman said she plans to introduce a bill next week allowing voters to decide on a constitutional amendment to permit gambling. The proposal would enable the governor to establish a gambling commission and lawmakers to develop rules for a lottery, gaming and sports betting; the measure is not yet law.

The proposal could put a constitutional change affecting lottery, gaming and sports betting before Alabama voters.

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Quaest poll puts bets and social media at 7% as source of hope nationwide

A Quaest poll found that 16% of respondents who were optimistic about Brazil's future cited regulation of betting and social media as a source of hope under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. That group represented 44% of respondents, making the combined issue about 7% of the full sample; the poll did not separate betting from social-media regulation. The survey interviewed 2,004 people from 30 October to 2 November.

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