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Colorado Lottery to suspend sales for one dayNews Story
Lottery giant GTECH criticizes rival Scientific Games for 'dark day'Colorado plans to halt lottery ticket sales for one day this spring while workers install machines that verify which tickets are winners.New York-based Scientific Games is taking over the job of managing the lottery machines under a state contract worth an estimated $43.5 million. The switch to Scientific Games was supposed to happen Nov. 1 last year, but glitches delayed it twice, pushing the start date to May 2.Lottery sales w
Mar 1, 2005, 3:30 pm - Todd - Lottery News

History to be made tomorrow!
Tomorrow, the Florida Lottery will officially end their long-standing relationship with IGT and will begin using the very popular GTech technology. They have used IGT's online system since the lottery began in 1988. GTech's terminals are much more capable, and the Florida Lottery is taking advantage with the itroduction of Grouper . But for me it's a little sad to see FL's relationship with IGT end. I remember very fondly the beautiful single-play tickets those terminals printed out. It had pai
Jan 30, 2005, 7:50 pm - JimmySand9 - Lottery Discussion Forum

stalking customersReply
Who supply's the scratch off's and machines for Texas Gtech or Scientific games. Today I had my hands on two brand new packs of scratch off's from scientific games and they were rapped in cellophane with no stickers on them of any kind. Just plane wrapped cellophane. So their was no indication of these stickers you suggest that are on the new packs of scratch off's unless Gtech does it differently. When the lottery operator scanned the pack all that it did was record the first bar code for the f
Nov 29, 2004, 4:23 pm - four4me - Lottery Discussion Forum

Other vendors could have saved Tenn. lottery $23MReply
Both SciGames and GTECH voluntarily lowered their bid costs after they were selected as the winner.....riiiiiight.I think it went a little more like this....Committee.... We really like your proposal and can forsee a good working relationship between us, but the cost is a little high. It sure is a shame that your bid was so high.... SciGames/GTECH.... Did we really put that amount in the contract...I thought I had told them to change that. See, here is the final document we were intending to s
Dec 27, 2003, 7:17 am - vincejr - Lottery News

Forum criticized for including Georgia lottery firmsNews Story
A lottery forum planned for minority businesses in Memphis next week came under fire yesterday, with some vendors saying that inviting two companies that work for the Georgia lottery to participate makes it appear that a Tennessee-Georgia partnership is a done deal.Three African-American lawmakers are planning a ''Tennessee Lottery Business Opportunities Forum'' Sept. 4, featuring GTECH and Scientific Games. A state lottery board member, originally scheduled to appear, has pulled out of the prog
Aug 28, 2003, 4:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

7-Eleven to sell lottery tickets online at kiosksNews Story
7-Eleven Inc. is putting lottery tickets at its customers' fingertips.The Dallas, Texas, convenience store chain has added lottery ticket sales to services available at its Vcom electronic commerce kiosks in 1,000 stores in 14 states and the District of Columbia.The kiosks are available in at least 49 metro Orlando locations and offer 24-hour ATM, financial and other services.7-Eleven sees the online lottery sales as enhancing customer service and increasing the company's share of the U.S. lotte
Jul 28, 2003, 7:52 am - Todd - Lottery News

Will R.I. Lottery win or lose in $1 billion IGT contract battle?News Story
Is it a wise move that would keep more than 1,000 high-paying jobs in Rhode Island or just the latest example of a you gotta know a guy back-room deal? Is the lottery giant IGT as Rhode Island as Del's lemonade or as British as Big Ben? In short, is the proposed no-bid, $1-billion, 20-year extension of IGT's current 20-year gambling technology contract a solid win for the Rhode Island economy or an ill-advised sweetheart deal ? As state lawmakers prepare to review the proposal this fall
Aug 13, 2019, 8:34 am - Todd - Lottery News

Contract controversy reveals D.C. Lottery's tangled rootsNews Story
Jerry Cooper, the man who helped bring legalized gambling and the lottery to the District nearly 30 years ago, called local businessman Warren C. Williams Sr. with a suggestion last year. The District's contract with Lottery Technology Enterprises, the firm that has run the city's online gaming for about 25 years, was going to expire by 2009. Would Williams be interested in bidding against LTE for the lucrative contract? No, but maybe his son and daughter-in-law would. So Alaka Willi
May 21, 2008, 8:29 am - Todd - Lottery News

NYS Lottery commits fraud in sales of Scratch off game
After an investigation into the NYS Lottery division's practices of how the conduct their sales of Scratch offs I have no choice but to conclude that NYS Lottery conducted an all out attempt to prevent the final top prize of Game 596 1 million dollars a year for life scratch off from being claimed. I lay out the conclusions and facts as I have found them. I have called and/or visited over 2000 retailers throughout NYS with dates and times and retailers names and was told that as far back
Feb 4, 2016, 5:45 pm - rgse90 - Instant ("Scratch-Off") Games Forum

Illinois Lottery superintendent at odds with private manager of lotteryNews Story
Illinois Lottery superintendent Michael Jones and the Northstar Lottery Group are at odds. Northstar is the private management consortium named in the fall of 2010 to run the Illinois Lottery. The source of the disagreement is a preliminary draft of a ruling this week from a mediator assigned to determine whether Northstar should have to pay a penalty for failing to meet stipulated profit goals in its private management agreement with the state. By its own accounting Northstar, comprised o
Sep 14, 2012, 8:09 am - Todd - Lottery News