Ohio Lottery opposes state audit

Comment #11

Delta Draw — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:53:38 GMT

State employees get a bonus? A performance reward? Who decides that and how much?

Yep the highest paying positions are at the lottery and I don't think that's right. Who does the performance evaluation to determine a bonus? I would think it would be para-mutual to be fair to all state employees, or at least those working for the lottery. I think there should be no protest to any local, state or federal audit. That is unless the same company(s) get to do the audits.

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Comment #10

rdgrnr — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:21:41 GMT

except that the Fed should be abolished, not just audited.

The boss at the lottery doesn't want her books to be audited, how shocking.

She says it's a waste of money. When has any government agency ever worried about wasting money? All the more reason to audit them. They have a state auditor for one reason - to audit. Let them do their job lady and stay out of the way. If you haven't been cooking the books you've got nothing to worry about, right

Comment #9

BuyLow — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:45:40 GMT

ALL Lotteries should be audited.

As an aside, AUDIT THE FEDERAL RESERVE WHILE YOU ARE AT IT. PS..it ain't Federal and there aren't any reserves.

Comment #8

KY Floyd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:06:18 GMT

Since we already know that, what kind of useful information do you expect we'd get by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an audit? The purpose of an audit is to look for irregularities, mismanagement, or inefficiency. Bonuses are either tied to rules, legislation or an employent contract, or based on meeting performance goals. The former can be fixed without an audit by simply changing the rules or the terms of renewed employment contracts. The latter probably means that the fat bonuse... [ More ]

Comment #7

Astekblue — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:37:06 GMT

Astekblue

Comment #6

wendy67 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:59:55 GMT

Especially GA. I think it was last year that the CEO's bonus was more than half of her salary.

Comment #5

ThatScaryChick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:52:14 GMT

I think that audits, should be done in all states that have the lottery.

Comment #4

TnTicketlosers — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:06:16 GMT

I wish someone would do an audit in Tennessee.But I guess that is wishfull thinking.

Comment #3

fja — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:17:53 GMT

Looks like somebody got mad from this last story, and ordered an audit:

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/150937

You pump 702 million dollars into the educational fund and there going to look for away to get Joe Citizen to contribnute more.....Politics and Lottery, It's the new big business

Comment #2

gopher07 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:58:57 GMT

It was Illinois

Comment #1

CAL-LottoPlayer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:06:32 GMT

One state which desperately needs a full audit, including undercover sting operations performed on retailers, is New York. There was a TV news program which covered undercover stings on retailers in California. A few, not many, retail clerks would check a ticket. Sometimes if the ticket was a winning ticket, the clerk would say it was not a winner and keep the ticket, cashing it later. California has stiff penalties for such acts of fraud. When caught, the clerks are arrested and the retailer wo... [ More ]

Ohio Lottery opposes state audit

Lottery Post — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:31:37 GMT

The Ohio Lottery Commission has formally rejected State Auditor Mary Taylor's decision to launch a performance audit of the $2.4 billion agency without its blessing.

Lottery Director Kathleen Burke said in a letter Saturday that the audit does not seem reasonable, necessary or a wise investment of public funds.

Taylor's office notified the commission last week that it was beginning a performance audit, citing the uncertain nature of gambling revenue from month to month and an environment... [ More ]