Amid a tangle of legal issues, state Senate President Joe Negron is signaling support for allowing slot machines in counties where voters have approved expanded gambling.

Voters in Duval and St. Lucie counties last month approved referendums to allow slot machines at pari-mutuel facilities, joining six other counties that did so earlier. But the lucrative machines have not started whirling in the counties as the gambling industry, regulators and lawmakers watch a case at the Florida Supreme Court and legal issues involving the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

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