The measure would legalize gambling and allow members of what it calls the Fairplay Holdings Ballot Question Committee to start ballot measures in cities and counties to license casinos and allow the sale of alcohol in the casinos.
However, Rutledge's letter said that popular name of the proposal is too long, the ballot title is "overly long and complicated" and that the proposal fails to say how the Fairplay Holdings Ballot Question Committee would be created or how it would initiate a ballot measure regarding gambling.
Under the proposal, when at least 3 percent of the voters in a city of at least 28,000 people or a county sign a petition seeking a local vote on casino gambling, a vote must be held in the next general election on whether to allow no more than two businesses to be licensed to operate casinos in that city or county.
The request for certification was submitted by Barry Emigh of Hot Springs