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Mashantucket Pequots Hold Tribal Elections

Vote a Turning Point for the Tribe

Updated 8:13 AM EST, Sun, Nov 1, 2009

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MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) -- Members of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian reservation are set to vote in tribal elections Sunday, but details of the vote are being kept under wraps.

Eighteen candidates are up for election in the 450-member reservation, which operates gaming enterprises at the Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods.

The vote comes amid declining revenues at its casinos and questions about the tribe's finances.

The election will yield at least one and as many as three new tribal councilors, as well as a new council chairman.

Sunday's first round of voting at the tribe's community center will conclude at noon. Then, once the three top vote-getters are identified, the membership will elect a chairman from among those three and the four councilors not up for election.

First Published: Nov 1, 2009 7:47 AM EST

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