N.D. lottery revenues exceed expectations

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CASH Only — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:53:18 GMT

mike:ND not selling scratch tickets must be helping the bottom line. How many more employees would have been needed

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LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:28:49 GMT

well they must not have very many lottery players in that state for them to have so few employees in the lottery office.....

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CASH Only — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:51:46 GMT

What is ND going to do when lottery sales stagnate

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Chewie — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:59:20 GMT

The lottery tries to keep administrative costs low, Keller said. It has only seven employees, and uses Montana's lottery computer, which is located in Helena, to run its games. The North Dakota Lottery relies on Scientific Games to do tasks normally done by a state lottery's own field employees, Keller said. The lottery adopted a very efficient business model of operation, Keller said. For the lottery to be successful, we had to optimize efficiencies. Appears to keep the corruption opportunit... [ More ]

N.D. lottery revenues exceed expectations

Lottery Post — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:06:00 GMT

North Dakota's three lottery games have raised $7.2 million for the state treasury since Powerball sold its first ticket in March 2004, the state's lottery director said.North Dakotans bought $24.9 million worth of tickets in 15 months.Although lottery demand was greater than state officials expected, sustaining the pace will be much more challenging, said Chuck Keller, director of the North Dakota Lottery. I realize that our honeymoon period is over, and that sales for the lottery are going t... [ More ]