S.C. only state with no lottery sales on Election Day

Comment #7

DoubleDown — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:52:56 GMT

If you listen real carefully, you can hear the music from Deliverance playing in the background..

You shore got a purty mouth, boy

Comment #6

JAP69 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:58:14 GMT

I went to the store at mid-day to get tickets. Forgot it was no sales on election day. I blatted and whined for an hour until I got the draw results and found out I would have lost.

The 125 combo drawn tonight is a heavy fave that is played in S.C. That number is compared to trip sales.

How many players tonight who did not buy advance plays.

Comment #5

Rick G — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:47:38 GMT

Absurdly foolish.

Comment #4

MADDOG10 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:26:24 GMT

Now how stupid is that? you can't buy a ticket, but they'll draw the numbers??????

Isn't that like if you go to church, you must be a christian . Well, what if you go to your garage, would that make you a car ???????

Not to worry DD, New Jersey is getting like the deep south everyday...

Comment #3

weshar75 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:50:30 GMT

It does not make much sense to have a law to not sell lottery tickets on election day. Especially if you sell tickets for the rest of the year but not just this one day. I wonder how much money is lost by the lottery because you can not buy or sell lottery on this one day?-weshar75

Comment #2

DoubleDown — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:24:30 GMT

Here in the deep south we no longer wonder why we get ridiculed by the rest of the country.

The SC daily numbers will be drawn, but you can't buy a ticket for them.

Doh

Comment #1

Tenaj — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:55:08 GMT

And this is a state where you can get married at 14 and that law just passed this year.

S.C. only state with no lottery sales on Election Day

Lottery Post — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:24:01 GMT

Reason for the law is unclear

South Carolinians can pick politicians and decide a slew of state issues Tuesday, but they can't elect to buy a lottery ticket or a bottle of booze.

State law prohibits the sale of both on statewide election days.

While a ban on selling liquor isn't unique to South Carolina, it is very likely that shutting down the state lottery is. And the reason lottery tickets are forbidden isn't nearly as clear as a banned bottle of vodka.

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