Election Betting Should Be Legal
Devils roll the dice, voters roll their eyes?
Hear Me Out · Celeste Headlee
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Show Notes
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: placing bets.
Betting on the results of elections is illegal in the United States – though that hasn’t stopped sportsbooks overseas from cashing in. And that doesn’t mean that Americans haven’t placed bets on election results in the U.S., either; that’s a tradition that dates back centuries.
There’s a push now to make elections betting legal on American soil — and for American companies to run online casinos. Futures markets are complicated, and it might feel gross, or even dangerous, to gamble on democracy… but of all the types of gambling we do allow, what if this one is actually the biggest good to society?
Eric Zitzewitz of Dartmouth joins us to bet on the value of election betting.
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