Georgia Lottery sets sales record with $3.4 billion sales

Comment #18

Stack47 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:16:38 GMT

Why did sales go up this season?

Because the Atlanta Braves didn't make the playoffs so all the baseball fans decided to buy lottery tickets.

Comment #17

Just6ntlc — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:12:36 GMT

Way to go Georgia on their sales. Why did sales go up this season? I hope they keep it up.

Comment #16

psykomo — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:15:05 GMT

TRANSLATION:

keep the ball machine ^^^^^

GEORGIA

THANKS

Comment #15

psykomo — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:18:20 GMT

Thanks to emilyg>>>>>>>

all of the millions who make a BET that they may help EDUCATION

BUT,..............and U-ALL...............KNOW their is always/ a BUTT..o!o

BUT, if it works^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

don't change if U can't !!!!!!!!!

EXPLAIN to the POOR!!

LOL to all who PASS your MONEY accross the counter to GEORGIA

Comment #14

LotteryPlayer — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:22:46 GMT

Lotto South (multi-state) replaced Lotto Georgia in 2001 and was cancelled in February 2006.

Comment #13

mountainman — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:38:55 GMT

When did they do away with Lotto South? I moved to GA in 1995 for part of high school and I believe they still had it then. It was multistate right

Comment #12

tnlotto1 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:12:37 GMT

i helped contribute to that record by buying a few raffle tickets and some future megamillions plays. georgia is doing just fine without rebecca paul running things so i dont know why she wants to make tennessee computerized when georgia is so successful without it.

Comment #11

LotteryPlayer — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:33:46 GMT

I agree, DoubleDown. They should bring back Lotto South or Lotto Georgia.

Comment #10

DoubleDown — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:36:48 GMT

I agree JimmySand9, with one more exception-

I wish they would drop the win for life game and bring back Ga lottery or the old lotto south....

Comment #9

JimmySand9 — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:45:04 GMT

Let's see, in Georgia I've won $50 on $1 tickets on two seperate occasions, and $100 on a $2 ticket on my most recent trip. There's no doubt I have luck here.

But luck or not, from what I've seen, Margaret DiFrancisco has done a very good job with running the Georgia Lottery, with the possible exception of the graphic design dep't, picking up where Rebecca Paul left off and lifting it even higher.

Comment #8

dld1961 — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:20:59 GMT

Just wondering, what is the most money you have ever had on a # and it came in? I know a lady about 10 years ago hit for a total of over $65,000 in a three month period in mi. She hit on one 4 digit for $17,500. It was pretty amazing to see, every time we talked she had more winners. She did share some of her # with me which did pay off to the tune of $1500.00. The most i have ever won personally is $3000.00 on the trip eights, the best part was they came back about 2 or 3 weeks later for

Comment #7

bobby jones — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:02:49 GMT

way to go georgia. you dont see this everyday a state that actually lets the people know how

much of the lottery sales is going to the schools.to bad we dont see more of this.this story

should have been on all the major news networks as an example of what can happen for education

and school children when the money is used properly.just the other day in chicago, illinois i saw that the schools

was asking the mayor for 300 million to keep some of the programs going.its just sad that t... [ More ]

Comment #6

psykomo — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:09:06 GMT

How did ......they

$$$DO.....THAT

Comment #5

psykomo — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:01:54 GMT

??????????????????

or these lotto PEACHE'S ?

from the local Georgia cracker's ???????????????? CROWD or did ??

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

they (the stupid) just move-INTO Georgia from outher>>>>states?

either>>>>>!!!

Georgia win

Comment #4

psykomo — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:58:30 GMT

eh ta Brutus $$$

LOL

PSYKOMO

Comment #3

Tnplayer805 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:28:02 GMT

Way to go ga! I put my contributions in last night! Thanks for being honest.

Comment #2

emilyg — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:24:19 GMT

You too -eh

Comment #1

DoubleDown — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:17:48 GMT

I have certainly contributed to this record.....

The Georgia Lottery conducts its daily drawings using real, traditional lottery drawing equipment, not computerized drawings .

Thank you Georgia lottery- for not going computerized.

Georgia Lottery sets sales record with $3.4 billion sales

Lottery Post — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:53:01 GMT

The Georgia lottery took in a record $3.4 billion dollars during the last fiscal year a $244 million jump from the previous year.

Officials say more than $850 million was transferred to the education fund, which pays for HOPE scholarships and pre-kindergarten classes. That brings the total funds raised to nine-point-three billion since the lottery began in 1993.

State officials were concerned a few years ago that lottery sales wouldn't meet the growing demand for pre-kindergarten class... [ More ]