The North Dakota State Senate has unanimously voted down an opportunity to allow the state’s voters to decide via referendum whether the state should add legalized online poker to its short list of approved gambling activities. On Tuesday, by a 47-0 count, as reported by the Grand Forks Herald, the state’s Senate rejected House Concurrent Resolution No. 3012, which would have placed the legalization of online poker on North Dakota’s 2022 general ballot.
The bill’s demise means another two years will pass before the state can reconsider the topic, and such a bill would face the same major hurdle as this time: a staunch bloc in the North Dakota Senate that remains opposed to gambling expansion of any type.
