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Nebraska voters reject online sports betting measures

Unofficial returns show Nebraska voters defeating two ballot initiatives that would have legalized online sports betting. A campaign backed by casino and sports-betting interests spent more than $22 million. The head of the Nebraska Family Alliance welcomed the result.

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Nebraska voters on Tuesday, Nov. 3, rejected a pair of ballot initiatives that would have legalized online sports betting statewide, according to unofficial returns. Initiative 441, which would have set up rules and taxes for mobile wagering, failed 54.5% to 45.5%, WOWT reported. Initiative 440, a companion constitutional amendment, failed by about 55% to 45%. Both had to pass for online betting to become legal.

The initiatives were sponsored by Tax Relief Nebraska, which turned to a petition drive after the measures stalled in the Legislature. The group spent more than $22 million, WOWT reported. RG.org reported that nearly all of the group's money came from the betting companies DraftKings and FanDuel. Supporters had said tax revenue from the wagers would go toward property tax relief.

Nate Grasz, executive director of the Nebraska Family Alliance, said voters "chose to protect kids, families, and student athletes from predatory online gambling," according to WOWT.

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  • Update, November 4, 2026: Brief prepared from WOWT (First Alert 6 staff; Nov. 4, 2026) and RG.org (Sergey Demidov; gambling-industry site; Nov. 4, 2026). No threadId. No follows. stories.ts had no Nebraska online sports betting story. The sheet date is Nov. 3, so sourcePublishedAt is 2026-11-03. The brief is in the Nov. 4 edition, so publishedAt and editionDate are 2026-11-04. Sources were opened Nov. 4, 2026, so accessedAt is 2026-11-04. Status is REPORTED. Tags are us and church-life. There is no gambling topic, and church-life is the closest existing tag. Tradition is omitted. No persecution tag. RG.org is a gambling-industry site with affiliate ads. It is used only for the vote figures, the fundraising, and the identification of Nate Grasz. WOWT quotes Grasz without naming his group; RG names it (Nebraska Family Alliance). The body does not claim that Nebraska churches campaigned. Figures differ by time stamp. WOWT has the later rounded margins; the body uses WOWT's percentages. No Secretary of State call was reported in the opened sources. The results are unofficial. The Story type has no related field. Related briefs are only those that share a threadId. This brief has no threadId, so alabama-amendment-3-pledge-student-led-prayer-approved-nov2026 is not linked. RG.org's live page title on Nov. 4, 2026, is "Nebraska 440 and 441 Trail as Online Betting Appears to Fail." The source title is the approved sheet title. No prior Wayback snapshot was found for WOWT or RG.org. Save Page Now was not used. No photo.

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