CLEVELAND — Legal analysis: With both the Ohio House and Senate having introduced competing bills that would legalize online casino gambling , there are questions about how that would actually work.

Legally Speaking, it’s possible that online gambling might not even be constitutional in our state.

Ohio’s constitution very specifically authorizes just four casino locations, spells out where they can be, and limits the number of slot machines that can exist at each facility.

Our state constitution says nothing about allowing any kind of online casino gaming.

Both the House and Senate bills ( House Bill 298 and Senate Bill 197 ) would limit internet casino gambling licenses to the operators of Ohio’s four casinos and seven racinos, but they would also be allowed to have a thi

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