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Illinois and New York are the two states that brought the initial query to get law changed via the Doj. Illinois Lottery superintendent Michael Jones told the Daily Herald that he hoped his state could start selling tickets online within the next three to four months. New York lottery director Gordon Medenica told the Wall Street Journal that his outfit would also start selling tickets online in 2012. “We’ve built the system and had it on a shelf waiting for more legal certainty.”
California State Lottery chief Robert O’Neill told the Los Angeles Times that the DoJ opinion had opened up “a major potential channel” for online ticket sales, but that until his legal eagles had more time to parse the opinion, it remained “just a potential channel.” O’Neill also said lottery officials were not presently considering online poker. In Massachusetts, state Treasurer Steven Grossman told the Boston Herald that he’ll convene an online gaming task force to explore online options, which include ticket sales, ‘online lottery games’, credit card sales and (possibly) online poker.
In Nevada, where state regulators approved online poker regulations the day before the DoJ opinion was made public, Aristocrat Technologies has become the latest company to apply for a license. Citing sources at the Nevada Gaming Control Board, CardPlayer .com identified the subsidiary of Australia’s Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. as the seventh company to formally submit an application. Of the seven applicants, only South Point Casino has applied for an operator’s license; the rest seek only to provide technological support for operators.
US Digital Gaming, a longtime backer of state-level online gaming, couldn’t be happier with the DoJ’s opinion, with general counsel Melissa Riahei calling it a “wonderful Christmas gift to state governments nationwide.
SOURCE- CALVINAYRE.COM
California State Lottery chief Robert O’Neill told the Los Angeles Times that the DoJ opinion had opened up “a major potential channel” for online ticket sales, but that until his legal eagles had more time to parse the opinion, it remained “just a potential channel.” O’Neill also said lottery officials were not presently considering online poker. In Massachusetts, state Treasurer Steven Grossman told the Boston Herald that he’ll convene an online gaming task force to explore online options, which include ticket sales, ‘online lottery games’, credit card sales and (possibly) online poker.
In Nevada, where state regulators approved online poker regulations the day before the DoJ opinion was made public, Aristocrat Technologies has become the latest company to apply for a license. Citing sources at the Nevada Gaming Control Board, CardPlayer .com identified the subsidiary of Australia’s Aristocrat Leisure Ltd. as the seventh company to formally submit an application. Of the seven applicants, only South Point Casino has applied for an operator’s license; the rest seek only to provide technological support for operators.
US Digital Gaming, a longtime backer of state-level online gaming, couldn’t be happier with the DoJ’s opinion, with general counsel Melissa Riahei calling it a “wonderful Christmas gift to state governments nationwide.
SOURCE- CALVINAYRE.COM