Video Poker 24/7 - Town Council Renews Video Poker License

Video Poker 247 - Town Council Renews Video Poker License

Sanford Town Council has voted to allow video poker machines to continue. They say that despite a state police investigation that suggested that there might be illegal payouts from video poker machines, they have decided that video poker is in their best interests.

The investigation ended without any busts, so they feel that although they are still getting questions regarding the video poker regulation, they think that it is safe to go ahead with it. They say that most of the concerns come regarding the agency that does the regulation of the video poker machines, not the machines themselves, so they are wondering the effectiveness of them instead of the machines.

They decided to draft a new resolution that would clarify the video poker machine regulations so that it would be clear cut how they should be used and what the punishments would be for violating the law. They are also asking the public to tell them what they think about video poker coming next election.

They have gone ahead and given the Wolves Social Club, Springvale Social Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9935 their video poker licenses back, with the knowledge that there will be a referendum vote in November and those regulations will be getting increasingly stricter. They said that the additional video poker regulations were the key to getting the other council members to vote yes for the machines.

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