Hoosier Lottery director offers reassurances on outsourcing

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vjohnson8 — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:14:32 GMT

IND lottery sucks, its sad sad it dont payout bu pennies look at the pay outs 52 peoples hit a number straight,, so sid its embrassing,, greed and stealing from the poor

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Seattlejohn — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:36:40 GMT

If the lottery is privatized, I wonder what controls will be in place to ensure that the lottery can't be compromised or corrupted. Will the state provide oversight to ensure there won't be scandals like in the 50's game shows? And if the Lottery is privatized (therefore no longer a public enterprise), is there now a need to disclose winners names addresses, seeing as how the reason consistently stated to promote disclosure is to ensure the public's trust in a governmental public operation... [ More ]

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NJJim — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:25:58 GMT

It's the sad march to the sea. Privatization seems attractive, so the state can sit back and collect revenue without responsibility or overhead costs. But it's simple math. If any company want to win a bid, they will have to promise the moon, and that's on top of taking on all the overhead costs that made it such an unattractive task for the state! They have to make that up someway... you guessed it - WE will be getting less value. The private company will change the games to dramatically DEcrea... [ More ]

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haymaker — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:45:38 GMT

Jersey don't do this.

ppl. will be OK with the 1 year anonymity law if the game is run by state,

however anonymous + private company = I don't trust em.

Hoosier Lottery director offers reassurances on outsourcing

Lottery Post — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:49:05 GMT

Indiana won't turn its lottery over to a private company if bidders don't meet the state's high standards, the executive director of the Hoosier Lottery said Friday.

The state has been seeking bids on a 10-year contract to run the Hoosier Lottery. Executive Director Karl Browning released a statement Friday, a day after a spokeswoman for Camelot Global Services, which runs the national lottery in Great Britain, told The Indianapolis Star it dropped out because the state's process encourages b... [ More ]