Alabama's Dialing for Dollars Vote Buying Scandal serves as a warning about the corruption inherent with Gambling dollars. Criminalizing possession is a positive development.
In Sunday's Montgomery Advertiser
Prattville Senator Bryan Taylor wants to make sure that charges involving slot machines will no longer simply be a slap on the hand for the person possessing them.
He is not only filing proposed legislation to change the penalty from a misdemeanor to a felony but wants the penalty to apply to all who may be using the machines to make a profit in violation of Alabama law.
His change would make possessing, selling, transporting or manufacturing slot machines or other gambling devices that are illegal in Alabama a Class C felony, punishable by a fine of up to $15,000 and one to 10 years in prison.
The phrasing of the law would allow Alabama law enforcement to go after not only those in possession of the machines, but the companies that are manufacturing them and leasing them to Alabama businesses.
The Montgomery Advertiser's Sebastian Kitchen has the complete story in Sunday's Montgomery Advertiser.
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