BUT THERE'S A BIG HURDLE IN THE WAY... AND THAT'S THE STATE CONSTITUTION.
IT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED TO ALLOW THIS NEW FORM OF GAMBLING... AND THAT WOULD REQUIRE A STATEWIDE VOTE.
THAT BILL IS NOW MAKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE HOUSE.
SOME ARE CONCERNED ABOUT BRINGING A CRIMINAL ELEMENT TO NORTH DAKOTA TO RUN THE POKER SITES... BUT SUPPORTERS SAY IT'S MUCH SIMPLER THAN THAT.
Rep. Ron Iverson/(R) Fargo: When you talk about this virtual casino, virtual Las Vegas, if you were to go to one of these sites, basically what you would see would be a rack of servers and some geeky guy drinking Mountain Dew sitting at a computer monitoring this. That's what this is. It's a website.
THE OWNERS OF SOME INTERNET POKER SITES HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN WITH ONE OF THE SPONSORS OF THE BILL AND HAVE EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO MOVE INTO THE STATE.
Read more...KFYR TV North Dakota's NBC News Leader
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