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COLUMBUS — Ohio voters on Nov. 4 likely will get a chance to vote on proposals to mandate paid sick days and to permit a $600 million casino at the intersection of I-71 and Ohio 73 in Clinton County near Wilmington.

Backers of both proposals on Tuesday, Aug. 5, said they had gathered enough signatures to put the issues before voters.

MyOhioNow, the group backing the gambling plan, turned in about 800,000 signatures to Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office to put a constitutional amendment permitting the casino on the ballot.

That's nearly double the 402,275 signatures required to put a constitutional amendment before voters.

Meanwhile, representatives from Ohioans for Healthy Families, the group backing the sick leave proposal, said they would turn in about 240,000 signatures to Brunner on Tuesday, about double the 120,683 signatures needed to get a proposed state law on the ballot.

Gov. Ted Strickland has been trying to work out a compromise between backers of the sick leave proposal and business groups that oppose it to keep it off the ballot. The last day to get it off the ballot is Sept. 5.

The proposed law would require businesses and organizations with 25 or more workers to let employees earn seven paid sick days a year.