Texas Lottery Officials Halt Jackpot Increase

Jun 10, 2005, 12:53 am (7 comments)

Texas Lottery

Texas Lottery officials won't boost the estimated top prize for Saturday's Lotto Texas drawing in the wake of accusations of inflated advertised jackpots.

Lottery Post reported yesterday that the Texas Lottery has been accused of falsely inflating jackpots to drive ticket sales, leading to charges of false advertising.

The Texas Lottery Commission says the estimated jackpot will remain at $8 million.

A critic earlier sent a letter to Attorney General Greg Abbott accusing the commission of false advertising.

Dawn Nettles is publisher of the Lotto Report, a publication devoted to criticizing the Texas Lottery.

An Abbott spokesman says AG officials looked into the matter and believe that the commission is taking necessary measures to address the issue.

The commission says ticket sales, along with the current interest rate factor, don't support an increase in the estimated jackpot.

Lottery officials are also looking at changing Lotto Texas rules to make sure jackpots don't exceed sales again.

Officials can access lottery reserves to make a payment if ticket sales don't cover the jackpot.

AP

Comments

LOTTOMIKE's avatarLOTTOMIKE

this will teach them that there are lottery players watching closely,more so than they thought....

Rip Snorter

this will teach them that there are lottery players watching closely,more so than they thought....

Likely so, Mike.  They'll have to toe the line on that one for a while, until the stink wears away.  And they'll have to find ways to be sneakier, they're saying to one another in the board room this morning, in the future.

Yah, this surely taught them a lesson.

Jack

CASH Only

I Agree!

LOTTOMIKE's avatarLOTTOMIKE

yeah they will have to be more sneakier next time...

Just6ntlc

Next time, I think Texas should update in tenths of millions such as 9.3, 10.5, etc just like Powerball.

CASH Only

PB updates in tenths at the time of the drawing.

Todd's avatarTodd

That's good.

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