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Statehouse News Bureau: Issue 3 Defeated

For the third time in 16 years, Ohio voters have said no to expanded gambling. This time, voters defeated a ballot issue that would have allowed thousands of electronic slot machines at the state's seven race tracks, plus two developments in Cleveland. It's a huge defeat for the gaming industry, which spent about 20 times more to sell the issue than critics spent to defeat it. Our Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen has the story.