Arkansas voters get first lottery-only proposal

Lottery Post — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:24:48 GMT

Arkansas banned lotteries even before state lawmakers determined how to properly pronounce the state's name.

The 1874 ban held through the era of Hot Springs' illegal casinos and their destruction at the hands of sledgehammer-wielding state troopers nearly a century later. In the time since, attempts to legalize a government-run lottery always included bringing back casino games or something else just as unpalatable for a state squarely in the nation's Bible Belt.

Now, though, a proposal b... [ More ]