The California Secretary of State gave permission to Anthony Sandstrom, a San Diego online poker player, to circulate a petition to try and put an initiative on a statewide ballot to establish a state run online poker site.
He would like to establish the state run poker site exempt from the Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and whose proceeds would go back into the state to fix the “sorry state of the local streets” in California.
According to Sandstrom, it’s no big deal. “I am just a guy who wants to play poker at home when I don’t feel like making an hour drive to a card room or casino. I am going to make a mighty effort to make safe, legal, and accessible online poker possible.”
Step one was the get the approval from the Secretary of State, now he needs to get 430,000 signatures by the end of the year to get his proposal on the state ballot in the spring. The UIGEA allows states to individually decide to legalize online poker, as long as the poker room is based in the state and only accepts customers from within the state.
To read the full initiative and learn more about the petition or to sign it, visit Sandstrom’s website www.caonlinepoker.org. Anyone can download the petitions for the purpose of gathering signatures.
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