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Wisconsin Republicans to hold hearing on lottery privacy billReply
So they say the transparency is to show public trust. To which I call BS Why is it BS? That's not ALL they say for wanting transparency; as I mentioned in my previous post, they claim that it drives lottery sales. What I don't understand is that people trust the lotteries to award the money (cough-Tipton-cough) yet don't trust them when they make the claim it helps sales? Again, their claim that it brings interest to the games makes sense to me. If a mega winner wants to take a lump sum,
Jul 10, 2019, 4:34 pm - mikeintexas - Lottery News

Georgia Gov. signs bill allowing lottery winners to remain anonymousNews Story
By Todd Northrop Georgia has joined a small but growing number of states that allow lottery winners to remain anonymous. On Monday Georgia governor Nathan Deal signed a bill allowing lottery winners with prizes over $250,000 to keep their identity secret upon request. Prior to this point, Georgia state law required disclosure of big lottery winners' names and hometown be disclosed if requested under the state's Open Records Act, but did not require them to take photographs with oversize
May 12, 2018, 8:47 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery director retiringNews Story
The North Carolina Education Lottery's top leader is retiring next spring, ending a stint with the agency that began before it started selling tickets more than a decade ago. The lottery announced Wednesday that Alice Garland will step down as executive director at the end of March. She became the lottery's second executive director in late 2010, succeeding Tom Shaheen. During her tenure, annual ticket sales increased by $1 billion to $2.4 billion in the past fiscal year, while the share earm
Oct 12, 2017, 10:45 am - Todd - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery's private manager faces 2nd lawsuit alleging fraudNews Story
A second lawsuit has been filed accusing the Illinois Lottery's private manager of defrauding players after an investigation found the lottery did not award many of the biggest prizes in its largest instant ticket games. The lawsuit was filed last week in Cook County Circuit Court by two people who describe themselves as longtime scratch-off players, and like the first one filed last month in downstate St. Clair County it seeks class-action status to cover all players who bought tickets for t
Mar 25, 2017, 3:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

SC Lottery director stepping downNews Story
Paula Harper Bethea is stepping down as executive director of the South Carolina Education Lottery. Bethea, of Bluffton, was an original member of the lottery commission when it was formed in 2001. She has served as director since 2009. The resignation will be effective Oct. 31. The lottery commission is in the process of concluding a 10-year request for proposals for vendors to provide terminals to print out lottery tickets, Bethea said. The end of October marks a convenient window for
Sep 8, 2016, 7:59 am - Todd - Lottery News

Just won $1,230,946.00Reply
Still no word from the postmaster. But wait now I'm being offered $15.000 and only have to enclose a $9 entry fee reduced from $12, wow save $3..thanks for doing the math..oh and I have to answer a qualifying question, so yea this must be legit. ? one bundle contains 450 $20 bills What would be the value of 30 bundles, check one box only box 1...$270,000 box 2...$405,000 easy enough, but they try to make it sound hard with all them zeros. I wonder why the do t
Dec 2, 2015, 4:19 pm - haymaker - Lottery Discussion Forum

UK Lottery fears website error caused players to discard winning ticketsNews Story
By Todd Northrop The United Kingdom National Lottery is putting out an urgent call for players to re-check their Lotto tickets from the Oct. 10 drawing because the Lottery published the wrong numbers on their website. To promote the re-launching of the revamped Lotto game on Oct. 10, the UK National Lottery held an expanded raffle drawing that awarded 25 prizes of 1,000,000 (US$1.5 million). During a normal drawing the lottery would award just one prize of 1,000,000. When the winning ra
Nov 1, 2015, 5:46 pm - Todd - Lottery News

PA Raffle CountdownReply
OK I found this from three days ago. Time Running Out to Play Halloween Millionaire Raffle MIDDLETOWN, Pa., Oct. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The play clock is ticking down on the Halloween Millionaire Raffle, offering the Pennsylvania Lottery's best chances of winning a $1 million prize. The quarterly game featuring 6,000 cash prizes will be drawn on Saturday, October 31. Tickets will be available until 8 p.m. Saturday, unless they sell out sooner. No matter how
Nov 1, 2015, 1:26 pm - Crazy Wombat - Lottery Discussion Forum

NC Powerball winner identifies herselfNews Story
A woman from Shallotte, North Carolina, has come forward with what she believes is the winning Powerball ticket from Wednesday's drawing. A reporter who spoke with 26-year-old Marie Holmes confirms the numbers and date on her ticket match those that were drawn for the $188 million payout. I thought I was going to have a heart attack when I saw the ticket and checked it, Holmes explained with a noticeable grin. The mother of four said she screamed after the winning numbers were drawn Wedne
Feb 13, 2015, 8:33 am - Todd - Lottery News

Do you have specific plans as to what you will be doing after your PB/MM win?Reply
Couple questions, numbnuts I asked you a question Have any suggestions to increase our chances of at least matching the MM bonus number? and you said something stupid about buying more QPs. Are you demanding that everybody else quit posting threads so somebody will pay attention to yours? I'm giving my opinion of what I think about the subject in this thread. I asked for opinion about the topic Is your life that boring you're interested if fools are making specific plans for jackpo
Jan 20, 2014, 3:48 pm - Stack47 - Lottery Discussion Forum