“All electronic pull-tabs and electronic linked bingo games currently in play will be prohibited under the proposed language” of a bill introduced at the legislature.

In opposing the bill, the Star Tribune noted that “American Indian tribes, given exclusivity over casino gambling decades ago, have decided that e-pulltabs are too popular, a little too fun and a little too much like slot machines. Having failed to persuade an administrative law judge on that point, they now want the state to ban e-pulltabs in their current form. If e-pull tabs are eliminated, our local charities will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in essential funding.”

Some politicians continue to falsely claim that electronic games played on iPads in veterans’ clubs and small businesses too closely resemble slot machines in casinos.

The truth is a Minnesota judge ruled that e-pull tabs played in bars and restaurants don’t infringe on the rights of the state’s Indian tribes to operate slot machines.