Seven states that don't have lotteries

Millions of Americans hurried to buy a $ 636 million prize at Mega Millions' sweep on Tuesday and seven states can not get tickets.

In the three states of Mississippi, Alabama and Utah, religious objections have long ignored the efforts to start a draw.

Victor Matheson, Economics of Lotus Cross College and Lottery Expert, says:

Ironically, Nevada has no lottery, the state has accepted various gambling for a long time.

"Although it may seem strange that there is no lottery, casinos do not want the competition of national lotteries," Matheson said. "They have such a powerful power, so they successfully stopped the lottery."

The national parliamentarians believe that companies near the border are losing sales to foreign competitors that can provide tickets, so the lottery has spread throughout the country. In the two states of Alaska and Hawaii, the discussion of geographical competition is not important, so we do not sell lottery tickets.

The seventh state without the lottery is Wyoming state, but it is not so. Wyoming legalized the lottery last summer. However, until next year we will not start selling tickets with Mega Millions and Powerball, so residents need to cross the province to win today's jackpot.

There were states that sold only power balls in the past, some states sell Super Millions. However, when other countries have big bonus, it will drive some Lezhou players across the state. Therefore, in January 2010, the two games reached the cross selling contract. This means that in addition to all 43 states, there are two games in the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands.

Each state has its own formula to determine the money collected from the lottery. According to the North American state and state lottery association data, the lottery sales in 2012 were $ 68.8 billion, totaling $ 19.4 billion.

Bonus payment of about $ 40 billion and payment to retailers selling lotteries $ 4 billion. The remaining funds will be used to pay administrative and marketing expenses.

The authors investigated lottery income in 37 states and District of Columbia and detailed operating expenses in their lottery life. 26 states and the District of Columbia provided answers to the survey. Management fee for this research includes lottery management, material purchase, computer network operation, and advertisement. These data are complemented by population data collected by the US Census Bureau. Georgia Lottery is working well compared to other states. Figure 1 shows the ratio of the total cost of the lottery business in each respondent country to the lottery sales for the fiscal year 1999. Compared to Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Ohio, only three states sell lotteries at lower costs and account for the percentage of turnover.

Between 1805 and 1832, Georgia used the lottery system seven times to distribute land acquired from Cherokee or Creek Countries. These lottery tickets are state-specific and no other country uses the lottery system to distribute the land. Even for individual lotteries, the lot size is quite different. The largest distribution is 805 acres in 1805 and 1820 land lottery in 1805. The smallest site is the prime location of 40 acres distributed during the 1832 Gold Lottery. Prior to 1803, Georgia had distributed the land in an upright system. Designed to ban corruption, the system actually encourages it. During the initial administrative period, the government abused the system and created what is commonly called Yazoo Land Fraud today. These abuses led to the adoption of the lottery system in May 1803 under the guidance of the governor of John Mileage. The first lottery under the new system took place in 1805