N.C. lottery tickets only two months away
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
By Mark Binker
Staff Writer RALEIGH — North Carolinians should be able to buy their first home-state lottery tickets before the end of March, under terms of a contract reached Monday with the company hired to run the games.
GTECH, which is based in Rhode Island, won the rights from the state lottery commission to provide both scratch-off instant tickets and online ticket sales, such as those used in pick-4 games and the multistate Powerball contest.
Left out of the running was GTECH’s major competitor, Scientific Games, which had become embroiled in a controversy involving its lobbying tactics at the General Assembly.
According to the seven-year deal, GTECH will be paid a percentage of the lottery’s profits.
The company would receive roughly $19 million if the state were to sell $1.2 billion in tickets in a given year, Lottery Executive Director Tom Shaheen said. (more…)
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