Virginia lottery jackpot winners can stay anonymous, starting in July

Comment #49

hearsetrax — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:36:36 GMT

if you want to know the secret to being old and sick to death of those who have nothing but the 1001 scapegoats

PM me jejeje

Comment #48

Artist77 — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 22:25:14 GMT

You and Coin Toss are winning with the best comments. Lol

Comment #47

mikeintexas — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:52:13 GMT

Just a hunch, but I'd be willing to bet none of them play the lottery.

Comment #46

hearsetrax — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 01:04:48 GMT

and when are you buying your ticket to a nother country

Comment #45

Prob988 — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 23:54:44 GMT

Now they'll be no questions asked when they're all named Donald, Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka and Jared.

Comment #44

Coin Toss — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:39:51 GMT

Maybe Virginia is planning a game with a jackpot ceiling of $9,999,999.....after July

Comment #43

Artist77 — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:23:47 GMT

Money. A lot Northern VA people work in DC and know about a big pb win where the DC winner claimed via a trust. Remember 1 of 8 people in DC are attorneys, supposedly (some may be in other fields).

Comment #42

iWins — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 20:07:57 GMT

I like that yes, sounds like you mean it lol

Comment #41

GoogilyMoogily — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:57:40 GMT

Want to Keep Your Lottery Winnings a Secret? Buy in Maryland -MSNBC, channel 4 Washington DC, 2013. Lots of advertising around NOVA to drive to MD at one time. Best ads MD lottery had were to VA. I can see that playing a role in their decision. A long time ago I worked on one side of southern Charlotte, but lived on the other side. The easiest and lightest traffic route was through SC. Tons of chatter when SC implemented the lottery. I recall Charlotte Mecklenburg council belly aching about lost... [ More ]

Comment #40

cottoneyedjoe — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:23:59 GMT

Any thoughts on what prompted the VA legislature to support anonymity? Did they conduct a survey that showed a large proportion of lottery players in MD border area buy their tickets on the other side to take advantage of their well-established anonymity rules

Comment #39

Bleudog101 — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:24:56 GMT

A few websites out there need updating IMHO, some are much easier to navigate than others and believe me with playing in different states I know.

FB/KLC had a post this morning and I wrote back regarding if I won the big one playing on-line how do I get your office to write separate checks like they would if you played in the store? We'll see what they respond with, they're very good about it. Again, back to websites; have emailed MA MI lottery some time ago questions and they just don't both... [ More ]

Comment #38

Artist77 — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 23:12:20 GMT

VA lottery needs to update their website.

Comment #37

noise-gate — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:58:26 GMT

It is fantastic news LL, but not for us out here on the West Coast. The CA Lottery Commission are hard-shelled advocates of what they call Transparency. Oh, other States may go for anonymity for jackpot winners, but not us.We live by higher standard, for instance we have company parties where anything goes - we not going to follow other States in doing what they doing. We not called the Golden State for nothing, we have the gold* Hollywood, Disneyland whoever has the gold, makes the rules, we do... [ More ]

Comment #36

LottoLucy — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 20:22:42 GMT

What fantastic news! Hopefully more states will follow suit.

Comment #35

Coin Toss — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:28:19 GMT

Bleudog101,

Maybe those running things in Virginia are planning on a state game with a jackpot that will start at or progress to $10M.

Just a thought.

Comment #34

Bleudog101 — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 12:04:55 GMT

alsmurf4, please keep us posted on any tidbits you may hear about regarding up the upcoming Mississippi lottery. Hope it is not a smokescreen and not go through this year

Comment #33

Bleudog101 — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 11:59:18 GMT

And the funny thing is PB MM minimum jackpots are $40 million. But they did the right thing IMHO by passing this.

Comment #32

MillionsWanted — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 06:54:07 GMT

People caring about their anonymity will not play until the jackpot reaches 10 millions.

Comment #31

noise-gate — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 01:37:23 GMT

Wow Tmm- Carole still looks pretty hot for a 77 year old. I can see her causing a 60's or 70 something's male's temperature coming to a boil.

Comment #30

alsmurf4 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:08:37 GMT

They usually care only about their re-election; they probably figure this will get them a few more votes.

Comment #29

TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:03:34 GMT

Natural Woman Carole King

Comment #28

grwurston — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 20:07:39 GMT

Thanks for the clarification

Comment #27

noise-gate — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:57:51 GMT

I have yet to hear of a lottery clerk asking Are you a citizen of the United States, if not we cannot take your money to play our games. I am convinced there would be lawyers salivating at the idea of taking on those cases in order to get their names out there.

Comment #26

Artist77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:32:26 GMT

Natural person just means a person vs a legal entity like a trust or llc. It has nothing to do with their citizenship status .

Comment #25

grwurston — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 19:16:33 GMT

I sense a bit of controversy in the future. Paragraph B above states: Only natural persons may purchase lottery tickets and claim prize winnings.

In the USAMEGA FAQ section it states:

Can non-US citizens play? What if a non-US citizen wins?

Yes, non-US citizens can legally play, and non-US citizens are eligible to win any prize offered in the game.

If a non-US citizen wins, they would claim their prize in the same manner that a US citizen would, but the taxes withheld would be differ... [ More ]

Comment #24

CDanaT — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:17:40 GMT

I will give VA credit, at least they are starting at a large dollar amount for anonymity. Now the trick is to get that figure down to a $1 Million or less.... Perhaps our queen and the court jesters of TN will follow suit.

GOOD FOR YOU VA

Comment #23

Todd — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:08:38 GMT

I guess we'll have to see how that works after there is a $10 million winner in VA after July 1st.

Comment #22

CDanaT — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:06:38 GMT

Todd, while I didn't examine the that particular scratcher and only looked at the $10 Million figure. That law talks about exceeding the $10 Million mark,so I considered $10,000,001 the starting point

Comment #21

Todd — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:02:52 GMT

That's right, only PB and MM qualify from Virginia's draw games. However, you're forgetting that it also includes scratch-off games, such as this one.

Comment #20

CDanaT — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:59:57 GMT

After looking at the VA lottery site, it looks as though you have only 2 games that exceed the $10 Million and qualify for that anonymity option... PB, MM ....Or am I missing some

Comment #19

Jubilance — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:31:55 GMT

My last ticket from Va is 6/26 so close!!! I'm going back to Va

Comment #18

Artist77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:19:52 GMT

Now that is how to cite to source info! I think it could be retroactive to now. Also I went to the VA website and notice a #10 million scratcher. It has to be the advertised cash value. The annuity value seems remote too me.

Comment #17

Todd — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:16:47 GMT

^^^ Understood what you're getting at with the lack of qualifying cash or annuity , but it does say ...the value of the prize won... , and an annuity prize is indeed valued at the total payout amount (even though it takes many years to pay out), so I believe it would still qualify at the $10 million level for an annuity.

Comment #16

TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:08:55 GMT

58.1-4029. Disclosure of identity of winners by the Department.

Except as provided in subsection B of 58.1-4019, the Department shall not disclose information

about the identity of an individual lottery winner if the value of the prize won by the winner exceeds

$10 million, unless the winner consents in writing to such disclosure.

58.1-4019. Certain persons ineligible to purchase tickets or shares or receive prizes.

A. No ticket or share shall be purchased by, and no prize shall

Comment #15

Artist77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 12:05:03 GMT

Or Northam trying to distract us all! Lol

Comment #14

Bleudog101 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:55:31 GMT

Almost unheard of: Politicians actually caring enough about their constituents to pass common sense legislation that can protect big time winners.

Congratulations Virginia

Comment #13

hearsetrax — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:47:06 GMT

I'm sure a fair amount of thought/energy was put into the numerous discussions

but as you said : something is better then nothing

or for that matter a price tag being attached for the option

Comment #12

Artist77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:43:06 GMT

Great poem Coin Toss. We did have a former obnoxious booted member who bragged about wanting the publicity and shouting it from his balcony. Any guesses

Comment #11

Artist77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:40:42 GMT

It does make sense on some level since there tends to be a lot of publicity for these 2 games.

Comment #10

paymentplan-man — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 11:33:01 GMT

On one hand I do really like having some form of anonymity but 10 million is such a high number. So this would only apply to Mega Millions and Powerball. Still something is better than nothing

Comment #9

hearsetrax — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 09:44:44 GMT

at your just my $.02 and I fully agree with you

: engage the cloaking device

Comment #8

iWins — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:38:29 GMT

Thank goodness. I feel all lotteries contests alike should give the option to have anonymous winners.

Comment #7

Todd — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 01:19:37 GMT

Yes, Wyoming is an anonymous state. Artist77 included that in her thread dedicated to the topic: https://www.lotterypost.com/thread/326232

I've updated the story to include Wyoming.

Comment #6

Coin Toss — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 01:19:18 GMT

misic,

Just my $.02 here, but anyone in an anonymous state who goes public should immediately sent to a psychiatrist before doing so!

______________________________________________________________

As for Virginia;

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And here's to brave Virginia

the Old Dominions state

to which the other anonymous states

has boldly joined her hand!

Hurrah! Hurrah!

For the anonymous states Hurrah!

/////////////////////////////////////////

(Parody on the Bonnie B... [ More ]

Comment #5

Ryan Dela — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 01:14:07 GMT

I heard Wyoming is also an anonymous state it just is never reported in stories or articles like this one with the other states because Wyoming is a low population state and has never had a jackpot winner. Can someone verify this for me

Comment #4

music* — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:49:28 GMT

This makes ten States who are looking out for their players.

All the winners still have the option to go public.

This reminds me of the change from mandatory Annuity to Cash Lump Sum. All have chosen the Cash with the exception of one player in San Francisco, CA. Change happens

Comment #3

hearsetrax — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:21:43 GMT

Comment #2

mswiz777 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:05:55 GMT

YES

Comment #1

Artist77 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 00:01:53 GMT

Thank you Todd. Best lottery news ever since I never thought it would happen. I bet VA brings in a lot more money since a lot of VA residents buy at work in DC.

I read nothing in the law addressing retroactive winners so I assume this means if I win now, I can claim anonymously in 3 months. And I guess I will be using your lottery places app much less now in DC.

Now on to the other states

Virginia lottery jackpot winners can stay anonymous, starting in July

Lottery Post — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:35:18 GMT

A new law passed by the Virginia General Assembly and signed by the Governor prohibits the Virginia Lottery from disclosing information about big jackpot winners.

The bill was unanimously passed by the House, and it passed the Senate in a vote of 34 to 5. A similar bill was introduced by Senator Lionell Spruill, Sr. who represents part of Chesapeake.

Governor Ralph Northam signed the bill into law on February 27.

When the bill goes into effect this summer, the Virginia Lottery will n... [ More ]