Don’t turn the voting process into a lottery
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 - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Lottery winner shows what not to do with $6.7M
Winner: Shefik Tallmadge.
Year: 1988.
Jackpot: $6.7 million, $335,000 each year for 20 years.
When Tallmadge was 29, he became the biggest winner in the Pick lottery at the time.
He bought a $60,000 nougat-brown Porsche 911 Carrera convertible the day he got his check, quit his $10.75 per hour job at Yuma Proving Ground and took his mother and his sister on a luxurious world tour to Honolulu; Bangkok, Thailand; and Sierra Leone.
Tallmadge transferred from community college to ...
Jul 18, 2006, 12:30 pm - - Lottery News forum
In 25 years, Arizona Lottery raised $5.5B
It was created in 1981, backed by businessmen looking for a tax break.
Twenty-five years later, the Arizona Lottery has made hundreds of people millionaires while awarding $2.9 billion in prizes.
It has contributed more than $1.8 billion to state and local projects and programs, far surpassing the annual revenue hopes of that original group of businessmen.
From new roads and bus shelters to programs for neglected children and funding for state parks, lottery dollars have touched the liv ...
Jul 18, 2006, 11:06 am - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Ballot Could Become Lottery Ticket
To anyone who ever said, I wouldn't vote for that bum for a million bucks, Arizona may be calling your bluff.
A proposal to award $1 million in every general election to one lucky resident, chosen by lottery, simply for voting no matter for whom has qualified for the November ballot.
Mark Osterloh, a political gadfly who is behind the initiative, the Arizona Voter Reward Act, is promoting it with the slogan, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Vote! He collected 185,902 signatures of re ...
Jul 18, 2006, 8:27 am - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Lottery to begin new branding campaign
Tim Burton-like Technique Breathes 'Life' into Lottery Tickets, Coins and Other Objects, Captures Consumer Experience
Riester Robb, the full-service advertising and public relations firm for the Arizona Lottery, will dramatically change the way consumers look at their Scratchers tickets and other familiar objects. A new stop-action animation television campaign transforms unexpected items into characters engaged in surprising behavior and captures the suspense of playing Scratchers.
St ...
Apr 25, 2006, 9:18 am - - Lottery News forum
Arizona man's lottery ticket wins on every line
Everyone dreams of purchasing a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers, but what about a $5 ticket that has winning numbers on each and every line including one with the winning jackpot numbers?
About three months ago, Louis Cooper, Tucson, began playing the Arizona Lottery again, after a brief hiatus, using some special numbers he liked and some suggested by a friend, who just happens to be a psychic. This friend also gave him a lucky stone that he wears around his neck.
Louis' fiv ...
Apr 11, 2006, 12:45 pm - - Lottery News forum
Arizona man proposes lottery to increase voter turnout
Cast a vote, win a million.
If an Arizona man has his way, every person who votes in his state will automatically have his or her name entered in a in draw to win $1 million. Mark Osterloh, an Arizona physician and attorney, is proposing a state law that would act as an incentive to increase voter turnout.
The long-time advocate of electoral policy reform says the idea is a variation on a highly successful law in Australia, under which citizens who fail to vote are fined.
Such a penal ...
Apr 9, 2006, 8:03 am - - Lottery News forum
Arizona Lottery tracks down real winner after ticket stolen
Arizona Lottery officials have tracked down the owner of a winning $1.4 million lottery ticket authorities said was fleeced by a convenience-store clerk.Officials confirmed that Cuauht moc Jose Luis Casta eda-Y nez of Nogales, Sonora, purchased the Pick winning ticket for the June 25 drawing.It's unclear when Casta eda-Y nez will receive the winnings, but the Attorney General's Office on Thursday submitted a forfeiture order in Maricopa County Superior Court to return the money to him.Authoritie ...
Nov 11, 2005, 6:54 am - - Lottery News forum
Gullible woman bilked out of $100K in lottery scam
A Tucson, Arizona, woman who said she was playing a free Internet lottery game was bilked out of nearly $100,000, according to sheriff's officials.The woman contacted the Sheriff's Department on Oct. 20 and told deputies about the lottery game called Universal Swiss Lottery, which she said she had been playing on the Internet. The game required no money to play.In March 2004, the woman said, she was contacted and told that she had won 2 million euros, according to the Sheriff's Department, which ...
Nov 3, 2005, 1:18 pm - - Lottery News forum
Store clerk accused of stealing $1M lottery ticket
A Circle K clerk in Nogales, Arizona is accused of stealing a lottery ticket and then collecting the $1 million winnings.The Attorney General's Office says the ticket was one of several that a man had brought in to the clerk's store to check to see if he had won anything.Authorities allege that clerk Delia Kerr returned the other tickets to the man, but kept the jackpot-winning The Pick ticket.The man didn't know he had won the jackpot, but complained to the store manager that one of his ticke ...
Aug 18, 2005, 5:03 pm - - Lottery News forum
