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• Guest

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  Apr 16, 2002, 9:18 am

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  In this day and age everyone in the US should be able to buy a ticket in any lottery, in any state, but can't. How high tech is that? I bet if the US Gov. got into the lotto business you could and it would be the world's biggest. Here in Nevada, the biggest betting city in the US (Vegas) you can't buy a lotto ticket, but you can play anything else. THE BIG GAME is getting bigger and soon will be in Wash. state. Maybe soon it will make it's way to Cal. that's if they are smart. Jackpot's are going to get too big not to notice and for Cal. to get a piece of the pie they have to join in. Maybe one day in this land of freedom we will be free to buy a lotto ticket of our choice.
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  Apr 16, 2002, 10:35 am

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  Only the US ? Remember that the jackpot can only grow so big by the number of players. So, why not the biggest jackpot in the world ever and give anybody who has access to the internet a chance to become a part of THE American Dream. Instead of a screen saying it is closed for maintainance. Perhaps this might also contribute to World Peace , because than we REALLY share ! ( sigh , oh lonely positive thinking I ). Jack Voogt- Amsterdam / The Netherlands.
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  Any one can buy a lottery ticket of any state, you just have to buy it in that state. I live in Ohio and when I want to play the Biggame, I travel to Michigan and when I want to play the Powerball, I travel to Indiana. I don't play the California lottery because it too far to travel, beside there are plenty of lotteries near by. If you want to play, you have to play by the rules. States created lotteries to make money for the states, not to give everybody a chance to get rich. If anyone is really interested in playing in a lottery not in their state, they will travel to a neighboring state to buy tickets, people do it all the time.
  
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   * you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *