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The Massachusetts Lottery would
be Authorized to Offer Its Products
Online and On Mobile Applications
Treasurer Deborah Goldberg late last
year cautioned lawmakers that the recent
string of record-level Lottery sales will
not continue unless the Lottery adapts to
changes in the market-place to compete
with the state’s growing casino gaming
industry and daily fantasy sports con-
tests. Ms. Goldberg has touted the idea
of a Lottery-run fantasy sports game,
which she said would attract a younger
audience that favors playing on mobile
devices, particularly 25-to-45-year-old
males “who are not Lottery players (and)
who are extremely excited by sports-
related fantasies.
“Since millennials and
other younger players have grown up with
access to technology at their fingertips, they
are less likely to purchase lottery tickets in
the traditional marketplace and we need to
find an alternative way to engage them,”
committee co-chair Sen. Barbara L’Italien
said in a statement. The Lottery has been
looking for a “broad mandate” from the
Legislature to move online, saying that an
internet presence will be essential if it is
to continue to thrive and return hundreds
of millions of dollars to cities and towns
as online games attract young players and
their money.
The Multi-State
Lottery
Association
(MUSL) Elects Gary Grief
as President of the Organization
Mr. Grief is the immediate past chair of
the Powerball game, past Lead Director
for the Mega Millions multi-state game
consortium and past president of the
North American Association of State and
Provincial Lotteries (NASPL). In 2012, he
was honored with the PGRI Major Peter
J. O’Connell Lottery Industry Lifetime
Achievement Award and in 2014 he was
inducted to Public Gaming Research Insti-
tute’s Lottery Industry Hall of Fame.
Iowa Lottery Introduces
New Look, New Logo,
New Tagline
Camelot Global Opens Office
in Chicago
Camelot Global, a sister company to
Camelot UK which has operated the
United Kingdom’s National Lottery for 22
years and is a stakeholder in the enterprise
that manages the Irish National Lottery, has
opened an office for North American op-
erations in Chicago. Camelot recently won
a five-year contract to develop a business
plan for the Arkansas lottery and also hopes
to be awarded a piece of a private manage-
ment contract to run the Illinois Lottery.
Scientific Games’ Successful
Partnership with Georgia Lottery
Corporation Extended for Seven Years
IGT PLC Creates Central
Administrative Organization;
Appoints Robert K. Vincent As Lead
Scientific Games Wins North
Carolina’s Instant Game Business
Missouri Governor Joins Colorado
and Mississippi in Signing Fantasy
Sports Bill
Brian Rockey is being appointed
Director of the Nebraska Lottery
Atul Bali Named Chairman of the
Board of Social-Lottery Company
GameRail™, a subsidiary of Shoutz, Inc.
Linq3 Partners with Verifone to
Bring Play at the Pump Lottery
to Gas Stations
California: Legislation Will Help
Clarify Complicated Relationship
Between Horse Racing and Gaming
Public-Private Board Considered for
New York Racing Association (NYRA)
IGT to Provide 1,500 New Video
Lottery Terminals to Oregon Lottery
Indiana: Hoosier Lottery
Implementing Cash4Life Draw Game
Connecticut Lottery: Keno Sales
Nearly $6M in First Month
Mississippi becomes Latest State
to Legalize and Regulate Fantasy
Sports Law
Florida: Seminoles End Legal Fight,
Avoid Financial Disclosure: Made
$2.4B Last Year
A UK Company wants Overseas
Players to Buy Millions of Oregon
Lottery Tickets
TheLotter.comclaims to provide what
is in essence a messenger service. Con-
sumers from all around the world select
the numbers they want to play through
thelotter.com.For a handling fee, theLot-
ter then sends an agent to a lottery retailer
in the country or state where the customer
wants to play. Currently, the company uses
agents to buy tickets in New Jersey, New
York and Florida, as well as in Oregon. A
lawyer representing TheLotter says that the
company would like to consolidate its U.S.
operations in Oregon. To do that, the lot-
tery would need to change its rules. Until
last December, nobody in Oregon thought
much about foreign lottery players. State
and federal laws prohibit internet gambling,
and that prohibition has meant in practice
that lottery purchasers have to buy their
tickets in person.
Last December, an Iraqi national presented
a winning ticket at the Oregon Lottery’s
Salem headquarters. The lotto ticket was
purchased online from TheLotter. After
consulting state and federal law enforce-