BY DARA KAM, NEWS SERVICE FLORDIA TALLAHASSEE – Florida voters won’t have a chance to decide whether to legalize sports betting after supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment backed by major online gambling companies FanDuel and DraftKings acknowledged Jan. 28 they lack the required signatures to make it on the 2022 ballot. Florida Education Champions, a political committee
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sponsoring the sports-betting measure, had until Feb. 1 to submit nearly 900,000 valid signatures to place the proposal on the November ballot. The measure called for authorizing sports betting at professional sports venues, pari-mutuel facilities and statewide via online platforms. As of Jan. 28, the committee had submitted 472,927
