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Though there’s a legal difference, Georgia lawmakers likely to try again to legalize sports gambling

To the governor – who likes to celebrate newly created jobs – this expansion was an economic development victory.

The ribbon-cutting was for a company called PrizePicks, which lets folks wager electronically on the performances of individual players in team sports.

Although sports betting is technically illegal in Georgia, PrizePicks says its platform legally bypasses those games-of-chance prohibitions by classifying theirs as skill-based games.

Backers of sports gambling have spent years trying to coax the legislature to legalize sports gambling in Georgia. Backers say the state could tax the proceeds and use them to expand college scholarships and other popular programs.

Though Kemp was the guest of honor at the PrizePicks ribbon cutting, Kemp has neither pushed nor blocked efforts to legalize sports gambling.

“My whole thing is that if we’re going to do something …