{"id":2450803,"date":"2019-11-06T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/prop-dd-update-sports-gambling-remains-to-close-to-call-wednesday-morning\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:40:01","slug":"prop-dd-update-sports-gambling-remains-to-close-to-call-wednesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/prop-dd-update-sports-gambling-remains-to-close-to-call-wednesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop DD update: Sports gambling remains to close to call Wednesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">DENVER (AP) \u2014 Election officials are still tallying votes on a ballot measure that would legalize sports betting in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Votes for Proposition DD gained a slight lead over \u201cno\u201d votes overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But the race was too close to call, with ballots from about one of every five precincts uncounted by midmorning Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As of 9:05 a.m., the state reported supporters were ahead 50.48% to 49.52% (a difference of 13,141).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The results are close despite no organized opposition to the measure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Republicans and Democrats in Colorado\u2019s Legislature referred the proposition to voters. It would legalize sports betting and tax it to help fund a state water conservation plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If approved, Colorado\u2019s 33 casinos could offer in-person and online wagering on professional, collegiate, motor and Olympic sports starting in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Voters rejected another measure Tuesday that would have allowed the state to keep excess tax revenue for schools and roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This is a developing story that will be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/prop-dd-update-sports-gambling-remains-to-close-to-call-wednesday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Election officials are still tallying votes on a ballot measure that would legalize sports betting in Colorado. Votes for Proposition DD gained a slight lead over \u201cno\u201d votes overnight. But the race was too close to call, with ballots from about one of every five precincts uncounted by midmorning Wednesday. As of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 08:33:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}