B-I-N-G-O going to V-O-T-E-R-S?

Colorado voters may get a chance to play ballot-box bingo in 2010 with a referred measure that would ask whether regulation of that favorite game of gamblin’ grannies and church fund-raisers moves from the secretary of state’s office to the state Department of Revenue.

Currently, Colorado’s secretary of state oversees the regulations of bingo and raffles, considered “games of chance” in the Colorado Constitution. The secretary of state also oversees elections and business licensing, among other things, and supporters of the referred measure say that’s just too much regulating for one person to handle. They say it makes more sense from the state Department of Revenue to be the bingo boss.

The state Senate approved the measure unanimously today. (It has so far had only one legislator out of 100 cast a vote against it.) It must be re-approved by the House because the Senate made a small change.

Once it clears the legislature, the measure will appear on the 2010 ballot.

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