How about voters decides if they allow gambling to be legalize in their country?

[Exitoral]

If I were to be asked to vote, I will go for no. But in my country, the yes have it. For me, I don't think votes Should really be the issue if it has already been operating in the country and no one complains. What the government should really do is regulate it.

Religion frowns on gambling, but the people who really do it are the religious people. That's funny as hell. Opposing it and still doing it in hiding. If that vote is really held in my country, like I said. The yes have it.

[YOSHIE]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country?

If the government gives the green light for the people to decide or choose about gambling in their country, of course a major disaster will occur in that country, a war between two camps will occur, bloodshed will immediately begin, especially in a country with a majority Muslim population.

In our household I have different incomes and views on gambling, especially in a country that has a population of millions, if it happens to be a disaster for that country the pros and cons.

In my view, gambling is partly accepted well and gambling is contradictory, this will trigger conflict, division, the government should not do that, making a single rule is better.

[yahoo62278]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning. 

This thread is inspired by what happened in

Steuben County officials have approved a measure that will allow voters to decide this fall whether casino gambling should be permitted in the county, a move tied to Indiana’s newly created inland casino licensing process.

Steuben County Moves Casino Question to Voters

The people should be the ones who have any sort of vote but we all know it comes down to money and politics. If you got enough money you can make nearly anything happen, just grease the right palm and boom you're in.

[TastyChillySauce00]

That's good one. I think all of countries should have taken it as their inspiration. They have to let their residents to decide whether casino is being allowed or disallowed in the country. So let people to decide their fate.

As for me, majority of people in my country treated gamble like a sin. So i see no chance it's to be passed because the total popuation of non gamblers are far greater compared to the gamblers.
However, Steuben country deserves appreciation. It's because they let their own people to decide it. So no more blame by residents to their regulators because they're gonna be the deciders..

[justdimin]

In my country what is not illegal is legal or non-legal and, therefore, not forbidden. In the case of gambling, it has been traditionally allowed, with some legal limits, therefore there is no need to vote to legalise it, and voting to outlaw it on the other hand would be an anachronism.

In general, in countries not under authoritarian governments' mandates, the state of gambling should be the one decided by the people. If they hold a vote and it turns out that it has to be legalised, it should be so for a simple democratic principle.

Sort of the same for us as well. There are casinos (very rare, only handful in certain place that is allowed to do) but online gambling, specially sportsbooks, are free to exist. But the only condition is that, they are constantly monitored by the government, they literally have government workers IN their offices, constantly checking the code and what not, trying to find if anything is wrong.

So if you are actually a legit online sportsbook, no shady deals, nothing scam, actually legit, and have a good code that is legal, then there is nothing to worry about and you are allowed to run. This is not "easy", it's a very high capital to start, but after you start, it is a very profitable business that many rich people attempt.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

There are lots of countries where gambling is already legal just like in my place, people do not need to vote again for it to be legalized since it's already legal but in countries where gambling is illegal, they can give the people the opportunity to have a vote on the issue, they would determine how bad the people needs it. In my place, even if a vote is conducted to vote against gambling so that it can be banned, those voting against gambling will be less than those voting for it.

[qwertyup23]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning. 

This is a difficult question because this will vary depending on how the government would implement the rules regarding the rule on majority.

If we are talking about simple majority, then this opens the possibility of purchasing/selling votes to people just to garner the favorable result. Additionally, if you let the people decide, this has the possibility of rendering disastrous results given the number of factors involved.

Personally, if you let the people decide here in the Philippines, then gambling would be leaning towards the favorable outcome- which is to adopt its constitution. The only problem that I see here would be the influence of religious organizations given that they are very outspoken against the practice of gambling as a whole.

[yhiaali3]

If the government gives the green light for the people to decide or choose about gambling in their country, of course a major disaster will occur in that country, a war between two camps will occur, bloodshed will immediately begin, especially in a country with a majority Muslim population.

I know exactly what you are talking about because I live in an Islamic country and I know that there are extremist Muslim groups that reject any dialogue and can shed blood against anyone who disagrees with them, so there is no room for any vote on gambling in Islamic countries.

Even secular, open governments fear these extremist groups and cannot pass any resolution that these extremists dislike or consider wrong or against the will of God, which they believe they represent on Earth.

[Findingnemo]

No, that is not possible because if you want that to happen for casino-related issues then I assume there are 99% of the matters are priority to the more people out there so the government will take voting system for everything?

And in democracy, you are electing a leader to represent the whole so pick them wisely instead of giving away your vote

[Wakate]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning. 

This thread is inspired by what happened in

Steuben County officials have approved a measure that will allow voters to decide this fall whether casino gambling should be permitted in the county, a move tied to Indiana’s newly created inland casino licensing process.

Steuben County Moves Casino Question to Voters

This can work and it won't happen at all. The senate is the one that is responsible in creating laws that will need to be obeyed by all citizens. There is no way the government will ask for your permission to vote for either accepting gambling or abolishing gambling and all the archives. If laws are created in this pattern, there will be a lot of manipulation.

[sompitonov]

No, that is not possible because if you want that to happen for casino-related issues then I assume there are 99% of the matters are priority to the more people out there so the government will take voting system for everything?

And in democracy, you are electing a leader to represent the whole so pick them wisely instead of giving away your vote

But in any case, voters have no way of knowing exactly how the elected leader will act, as they can change their minds at any moment, sometimes even to the opposite. While players might vote for the leader, the important thing is that the majority of voters choose them, hoping they will fulfill their promises. Sometimes voters can change their minds because their relatives or friends might lose, and as a result, they won't vote for someone who would legalize gambling.

[nimogsm]

In my country, gambling is legal, but  need a special license to operate. There's practically no aggressive advertising the most you see are logos of partnerships with certain projects, and nothing more. People have been extremely receptive to the legalization of gambling in my opinion, most winnings are taxed anyway, so the state only profits.

[Agbe]

There will be two major opposing groups in this matter and they are the two core religious groups. Which are the Islam and Christian. Those who believed that gambling is a sin will oppose the motion of adopting gambling as a legal event in their countries and they will be very happy to bad gambling. But the traditionalist, will fully support the adoption because they ha e nothing against gambling.

[Alphakilo]

I do not think there would be uniform agreement in my country as the votes would be a result of current disparity in geographical and demographic split.
My country is more of individuals who are very culturally, traditionally and money greedy focused, that such a decision may cause a clash of idealogy and interest.

Some parts will be divided in their polls like the North which is more Islamic in religion may strongly prohibit this as compared to other southern, eastern and western regions which have more gamblers and heavily taxed casinos.

The verdict might look more like more acceptance in urban centers and prohibition in the more religious states and regions which would lead to the country moving more into decentralized and state controlled models.

[rdluffy]

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Depending on what is the logic or mindset of the people in your country. Here in Philippines, We have too much democracy that make the politicians can’t implement already a law to create better program because voters here is always communist illegal like illegal parking, vendor and so on.

Politicians are too scared to implement that will affect the community wrongdoings because they will be voted on the next election. The result is more corruption in the government while people is on total chaos minding their own business.

I like the government decide on this matter in our case assuming they have experts that will carefully analyze it compared to the majority that doesn’t have knowledge on what they truly voting for.

If it were a direct vote, I think people would vote in favor of greater legalization here
However, I should point out that here in Brazil, online gambling is allowed, provided that the casino is properly licensed here. It has to pay government fees in order to operate
Physical casinos are not allowed

Here, we practically never have direct votes to decide on issues like this
You vote for politicians to represent you on these issues, but the problem here is that it’s a country with a high level of corruption, and the politicians are terrible

But getting back to the topic, it would be a great way to properly represent the will and freedom of the majority of the population

[Bright0515]

Actually I think if the whole citizens in my country come out to vote whether to ban gamble/betting in the country, I still believe that gamble will not be banned because people that are going to vote for it to stay will be more as it's already obvious that gambling is not really the problem in my country. Many people have benefitted from gamble, only gamblers who don't have self control and are also greedy that usually lose a lot of money and become addicted to it. Well let's not go further because I believe such thing might not happen in my country.

[terrific]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning. 

This thread is inspired by what happened in

Steuben County officials have approved a measure that will allow voters to decide this fall whether casino gambling should be permitted in the county, a move tied to Indiana’s newly created inland casino licensing process.

Steuben County Moves Casino Question to Voters

I think that most countries have more non gamblers than the gamblers.
So if it will be voted if people should legalize gambling in our countries, we'd see that many of them will not allow it to happen.
Because if there are more gamblers then it means that the physical casinos are overwhelmed and crowded.
And the same goes for the online casinos. I believe that there are too many online casino gamblers but won't be enough to beat the non gamblers vote.

[rbynxx]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning.

I think that's a good idea and if you're really a democratic country and you're a good leader that's what would you do considering the citizens are way above you but we know that thing doesn't seem to be honored these days and that's the reality we need to accept. I think the outcome will be favoring on banning it considering most of the citizens will surely not approve such a thing but government has other ideas and that's to profit out of it and banning it may disrupt the other means of sucking taxes on that particular industry.

[Powerjumboo]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning. 

In my country, Nigeria, if a vote were to be held on whether gambling should be legalized or not, I think the majority of voters in my country would vote against legalizing gambling because most people in this country are under religious rule where they consider gambling as a sin or a curse because gambling is considered a complete sin in Islam and gambling is not viewed very well in other religions. That is why religious people from my country who are against gambling will definitely vote against legalizing gambling because they will never want gambling to be legalized in this country and create unrest like people.

[macson]

What will be the outcome in your country if your government decides to let its people decide if they want to legalize gambling in your country? with casino operators and supporters, and those opposing, campaigning for legalization or banning. 

I think if citizens in my country were given the opportunity to vote on whether gambling should be legalized, it would still be illegal because my country is a Muslim-majority country, and gambling is forbidden. However, if it were made regionally, there might be regions with a majority of other religions that would allow gambling, because there are still regions here that still have gambling activities even though they are illegal, and this would generate income for those regions if they were granted the right to manage gambling.