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A mega decision for California Lottery?News Story
The state lottery's 2005 entrance into multi-state Mega Millions lotto would become fully legal, and fair to gamblers and schools, under a bill approved Thursday by the Assembly. At the same time, the Assembly said it is hiring a think tank, Los Angeles-based Milken Institute, to assess Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's push to privatize the state-run lottery. The move came after the governor briefed Democratic legislative leaders on the plan, aimed at yielding immediate cash to ease the state bud
May 26, 2007, 9:40 am - Todd - Lottery News

Britain may become the online gambling capitalNews Story
Britain may bring in legislation allowing London-listed Internet gambling companies to move their headquarters to Britain, taking advantage of the United States legislature's faulty attempts to ban the popular online activity. Plans to turn Britain into a world leader in internet gambling have been drawn up by ministers, according to internal Whitehall documents. In stark contrast to America, where online gambling has in effect been outlawed, ministers want to attract offshore companies
Oct 8, 2006, 3:20 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut considers allowing online lottery ticket salesReply
Taking it to an outside vendor seems like it's trouble waiting to happen. Under the pending legislation in Connecticut, a lottery sales agent someone who is licensed to sell lottery products would enter into an agreement with a company to sell lottery tickets online. The company would then purchase tickets on behalf of others through the sales agent, and would be tasked with redeeming and distributing winnings. This sounds something like what The Lotter already does. Any company selling
Mar 8, 2016, 3:59 pm - TheMeatman2005 - Lottery News

Is there an attorney willing to look into this case/matter NYS lottery Do we have a case?
Counselor, the NYS Lottery commission, which is governed by the NYS legislation and the rules set forth has a different way to deal with the scratch offs. Let's say for a scratch off game they print 20 million tickets. Their are over 17 thousand retailers throughout NYS that are authorized sellers. Every business orders games. The have books of scratch offs opened to sell and some behind the counter waiting for them to open them. When a book is opened for sale from that day until 45 day
Aug 22, 2015, 2:57 pm - rgse90 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Texas Lottery joins missing seniors programNews Story
The Texas Lottery Commission in September joined the newly-opened Silver Alert Network, which assists efforts by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to find missing senior citizens. The Texas Lottery Commission is working in conjunction with the Division of Emergency Management at the DPS, the state agency tasked by Governor Rick Perry with implementing the Amber Alert Network in Texas. The Texas Lottery is now issuing alerts at the 16,000-plus Lottery retail locations on LED screens and
Oct 22, 2007, 8:12 am - Todd - Lottery News

Congressman leads charge to regulate USA online gamblingReply
Here's what happened since UIGEA: - Frist is gone, as is Leach - Barney Frank (D-MA, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee) has publicly taken our side. He'll introduce legislation to repeal UIGEA. - Ron Paul (R) specifically stating he'll support Barney Frank's efforts. - Shelley Berkley (D-NV) and Jon Porter (R-NV) have proposed legislation to study legalized and regulated online gambling. - The WTO ruled in favor of Antigua over the U.S. in the issue of the U.S. banning onl
Jul 24, 2007, 8:21 am - LOTTOMIKE - Lottery News

order declined at betslipsReply
I don't know about the contact information for click2pay but I think that the Credit Card companies are starting to decline service according to the DUMB US law against inertnet gambling. I've not had a problem before, but all of a sudden BAMB, when the new expiration took effect they are no longer accepting transactions. There is legislation in process by an senator in Mass (thank God for him) a Democrat who sees this as a viaolation on our rights as citizens to do with our own money as
May 13, 2007, 11:33 am - mjwinsmith - Lottery Discussion Forum

Frist continues crusade against Internet gamblingReply
Frist Fails to Piggyback I-Gaming Bill U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's effort to attach prohibitive online gambling legislation to the FY 2007 Defense Department Conference Report (DCR 07) has yet to materialize. The conference committee on the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bill reportedly removed Leach-type language from the bill. A source close to IGN said he expects Frist, R-Tenn., to continue pressuring legislators to amend the bill, making use of provisions introd
Sep 17, 2006, 5:12 pm - LOTTOMIKE - Lottery News

US House votes to kill Internet gamblingReply
The passage of a bill on the House floor by a 317 to 93 vote banning online gambling has failed to hurt gambling company shares. In fact, it seems to have done quite the opposite. Both Sportingbet and PartyGaming's shares rose after analysts said the latest attempt to ban internet casinos would fail despite its overwhelming support by the House. The Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act was co-sponsored by Republican congressman Bob Goodlatte, who has called online gaming a
Jul 14, 2006, 2:07 am - LOTTOMIKE - Lottery News

US House votes to kill Internet gamblingReply
Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Jim Leach, R-Iowa sponsored the bill. They successfully beat back an amendment to strip out exemptions in the legislation for the horse racing industry and state lotteries. beat back = blocked? eliminated? strip out = remove? exemptions = allowing of? it would read successfully eliminated an amendment to remove the allowing of horse racing/lotteries. Meaning, the legislation HAS exemptions for horse racing/lottery which the Reps. PROTECTED... IF I
Jul 12, 2006, 8:36 pm - LckyLary - Lottery News