Minnesota To Discontinue Online Scratch-OffsSales Of Tickets For Draw Games Can Continue |
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The Minnesota Timberwolves just won the NBA’s draft lottery, but the state itself its going to be discontinuing some of its online lottery offerings. A bill was passed this month by the Minnesota legislature and now has become law after the governor decided last week not to veto it. He vetoed a similar bill last year.
The state lottery has four months to stop its instant-play games on the web. Another name for these games is “e-scratch” tickets.
According to the Star Tribune, officials felt that the lottery “overstepped its bounds.” The report said that Minnesota was the first state in the country to sell instant-play games via the Internet in addition to a subscription service for draw games. Those offerings began in early 2014.
The subscription service could still continue. The bill doesn’t ban the online sale of tickets for games like Powerball, but they could end and be an unforeseen consequence of the law.
State lottery officials reportedly believe that Minnesota might get sued for the move, as well as face up to $12 million in damages for terminating deals with third-party vendors early.
More than a dozen states have some form of Internet lotto sales and many more are considering the activity. More than $70 billion was spent by Americans on the lottery in 2014.
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