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Indiana Lottery gets new directorReply
A political hack gets the ax! I am no longer a participating member here at Lottery Post but I do want to comment on this story. Hoosier Lottery Esther Schnieder is currently under investigation by The Indiana Inspector General's office for ethics violations. The charges include...among other things...paying prizes to holders of expired tickets to the now defunct Hoosier Millionaire game. <>She also held a politcial fundraiser for Senator Richard Lugar in which she alledge
Dec 13, 2006, 9:35 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery News

is there an expert of mdieditor 4.0
hello i live in france and play French loto. i have tested programs of mr saliu. i think mdietor is a good program because you can make some parameters on filter before lauching sequencial or optimized files. i have understand all the manipulation to do, (file with all draws, filters, strategy and so), but my problem is when i select filters the files generated are too big to play (10000 plays) my pb is how tuning the filter. i don't know what happen is i increase or reduce a val
Nov 15, 2006, 2:35 pm - fdjfrance - Jackpot Games Forum

statistics and odds of winning in games that don't match for me.
The Lifetime Riches game # 540 was produced with 8,396,880 tickets and included three (3) top prizes of $5,000 a week for life. Distribution of tickets to the New Jersey Lottery's approximately 6,000 retailers began on March 23, 2005. As of September 26, 2006 8,013,142 of the tickets have been reported sold and 200,580 tickets remain available for sale at retail locations. The remaining 349,678 tickets were either in the warehouse or in retailer inventory and not available for sa
Oct 29, 2006, 2:52 pm - lorramil - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Texas Lottery hits new sales recordNews Story
Scratch-offs are biggest chunk of $3.77 billion, as Lotto Texas' popularity drops Officials with the Texas Lottery Commission took a gamble on scratch-off games a few years ago and, according to the latest figures, the bet's paid off: The agency's overall ticket sales rose to $3.77 billion in fiscal 2006, the highest total in the agency's history, with most of the increase coming from the games that provide immediate gratification. The big growth is in the scratch-offs, said Robert Heith
Sep 27, 2006, 11:37 am - Todd - Lottery News

Another Gamble for Online BettingNews Story
Legal wrangling in the U.S. is clouding the prospects for the industry world-wide Two recent arrests of online-gambling executives in the U.S. are drawing attention to a spirited but so far unsuccessful effort in Washington to clarify the legal status of Internet gambling and resolve the political and legal issues of regulating it. Earlier this month, Peter Dicks, at the time nonexecutive chairman of Sportingbet PLC, Britain's largest publicly traded Internet-gambling company, was arrested
Sep 22, 2006, 7:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lawmakers criticize Iowa Lottery bonusesNews Story
Iowa Lottery workers are about to receive up to $7,700 each in what their board calls incentive-based pay and what critics call politically tone-deaf bonuses. The lottery board voted 5-0 Thursday to split $385,710 among the agency's 116 employees, with each person receiving almost 6 percent of annual salary. The money is to be paid under a long-standing policy that rewards workers when the agency meets financial targets, lottery officials said. In this case, the lottery went almost $3 m
Aug 21, 2006, 12:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Ohio Lottery chief to oversee county electionNews Story
In Ohio, the two Democrats on the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections said Thursday that they would drop their drive to dump elections Director Michael Vu and his deputy, Gwen Dillingam, once the decision was made to hire Ohio Lottery Director Tom Hayes to oversee the general election. Hayes was hired by the Cuyahoga County commissioners. His compensation will be determined later. His hiring, however, raised questions about who is in charge of the board and whether Hayes, a jogging and tra
Aug 11, 2006, 2:27 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery sales in Pa. hit record $3 billionNews Story
Pennsylvania Lottery sales for the 2005-06 fiscal year reached a record $3.07 billion, Gov. Rendell said yesterday. Sales grew by $425 million, the largest dollar increase in the lottery's 34-year history, leaving the agency with a $400 million surplus. The state will use half that money to expand property-tax and rent-rebate programs for senior citizens, said Stephanie Weyant, a spokeswoman for the state Revenue Department. The expanded rebates will go out in 2007 to pay for the 2006 tax
Aug 1, 2006, 8:39 am - Todd - Lottery News

$10 Billion Lottery Proposal Stalls in IllinoisNews Story
A proposal by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to increase funding for public education by selling or leasing the state lottery for $10 billion may be headed nowhere. Blagojevich announced the proposal with much fanfare on May 23, but no supporting legislation has been introduced, political leaders are peppering the governor with questions that have not been answered, and allegations of political payoffs and cronyism have surfaced. A key inquisitor has been state House Speaker Michael Mad
Jul 26, 2006, 6:11 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Don’t turn the voting process into a lotteryNews Story
By Cheryl Tatum Hendersonville Star News The idea of turning the voting process into a lottery as proposed by an Arizona politician is one that is surely prompting comment from many circles. Now when I write columns for The Star News they typically are on issues or events that revolve around our local community. After all, this is a community newspaper and I believe should address those ideas that impact us where we live. However, nothing is more important for us as a nation than the v
Jul 21, 2006, 10:06 am - Todd - Lottery News