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5 proposals for equipment, services submitted for gamesNews Story
6 committee members only ones who will study informationTennessee lottery officials received five proposals yesterday to provide equipment and services for Tennessee lottery games and began to handle them in top-secret fashion.On and off over the next month to six weeks, a six-member evaluation committee of lottery executives will lock itself inside a room to study the proposals. The committee will be the only people who go in or out of that room, said lottery spokesman Will Pinkston.Each propo
Oct 28, 2003, 3:48 am - Todd - Lottery News

Giant lottery operator GTECH wants to add Tennessee to its clienteleNews Story
Financial advisers have long said that lottery players would fare better investing their money in the stock market than hoping the pingpong balls pop up with their numbers.If you followed that advice and bought stock in the largest lottery operator in the country, GTECH Holdings, over the past decade, chances are the investment would have paid off better about 500% better.The West Greenwich, R.I., company's stock price has doubled in the past year, closing Friday at $42.77; GTECH's revenues have
Sep 8, 2003, 3:49 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery deal may lead to lawsuitsReply
I can't beleive that they are even debating this still....if the joint venture comes about, the other vendors WILL sue, a judge WILL grant an injunction, and the vaunted December startup that GA is pushing as the key reason to form the joint venture will slip to January, then Feburary, then March, etc.Headline from December 1, 2006 Tennesseean A Dollar and a Dream...First Lottery Tickets Go on Sale Today . Rebecca promised December, she just didn't say WHICH December...
Sep 2, 2003, 4:37 pm - vincejr - Lottery News

Lottery Vendors Object to Tenn.-Georgia PartnershipReply
It's about time some of the other MANY lottery/gaming vendors spoke up about the problems inherent in the proposed GA/TN partnership . However, unsaid in the article (but probably strongly implied in the letter) is the strong probability of a lawsuit or lawsuits if the partnership goes through.Come on TN, wake up and smell the load of s that GA is feeding you!
Aug 26, 2003, 1:49 pm - vincejr - Lottery News

Hundreds of businesses interested in selling Tenn. lottery ticketsNews Story
Tennessee lottery officials say more than 500 businesses have contacted them about selling lottery tickets.Most of the inquiries so far have come through the lottery's temporary Web site.The Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation wants to recruit around four-thousand vendors and will begin advertising for them in the next few weeks.Lottery spokesman Will Pinkston says the corporation is looking for strong retailers with proven business sense.Pinkston says the lottery must invest a computer term
Aug 20, 2003, 9:04 am - Todd - Lottery News

Did new Illinois Lottery private manager get too good of a deal?News Story
Hoping for better luck the second time around, state officials unveiled a deal Friday to put the fate of the Illinois Lottery in the hands of a British firm that pledges bigger returns than those generated under the manager the state fired. In a do-over of the nation's first, controversial attempt at state lottery privatization six years ago, Illinois agreed to a contract with the only firm to bid for the potentially lucrative job: the Camelot Group. It comes as the state and Camelot pledge t
Oct 21, 2017, 9:55 am - Todd - Lottery News

Report finds no conspiracy in CT Lottery scandalNews Story
New details of how vendors outsmarted their lottery terminals and printed themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in instant, winning 5 Card Cash tickets, are revealed in the Connecticut Lottery Corp.'s final assessment of the scandal. Frank Farricker, chairman of the board overseeing the lottery, sent the eight-page assessment of the fraud to the state Department of Consumer Protection on Friday. The department regulates the lottery and investigates the wrongdoing. In a Sunday intervi
Nov 1, 2016, 12:13 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Connecticut considers allowing online lottery ticket salesNews Story
Lawmakers are considering legislation that would move the Connecticut Lottery online for state residents. A bill raised by the legislature's Public Safety and Security Committee would allow for lottery tickets to be sold online through a licensed vendor. If the bill moves forward, Connecticut would be one of the few states in the country to offer online lottery tickets. It would also be one of the only states to sell online tickets through an outside vendor. I've never heard of this befor
Mar 8, 2016, 8:24 am - Todd - Lottery News

Store owner's lottery bonus put on holdNews Story
The store owner who sold the unclaimed $3.5 million Connecticut Classic Lotto ticket in February will not be receiving his $10,000 sales commission unless he settles outstanding accounts with the state lottery, according to a spokeswoman for the lottery. Zee Zahid, proprietor of Coventry Getty Mart, was to receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket on Feb. 14, 2006. But the expected windfall became more hassle than help for Zahid. No, I didn't get the $10,000, and they gave
Mar 22, 2007, 3:12 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Audit opens up conversation about possible collusion between Maryland lottery players and vendorsReply
to identify patterns of potential collusion between players and lottery related vendors or officials. Uh yeah, players look for patterns too....duh! And stack47 is possibly right, some peeps trying to avoid taxes and child support by using a ticket broker to collect their winnings (very plausible and not the vendors involved). In NC, they are the corrupt ones and only let us win when they want to. So who is more wrong, players who find patterns and win big, or the lotteries who rig the dr
May 25, 2022, 10:23 pm - itpmguru - Lottery News