We checked and double-checked all the procedures, and everything was done correctly. It was just one of those coincidences.
Despite this decades-long setback, America's fascination with lottery games would continue, as would the desire of states to find alternative methods of funding critical and worthy programs without raising taxes.
It was a great time for us to get in. It's had a positive impact on it. We're performing really well.
Much as they are today, lotteries during America's crucial formative years were an important revenue source for building, linking, educating and protecting our country. In America's infancy, an investment in lottery was viewed by the public as an investment in the country.
