Lottery Update: Lawsuits and RFPs edition
A few points of update on the NC Lottery:
- The Lottery Commission met this morning (12/15). The only substantail action it took was to give Director Tom Shaheen permission to publish RFPs for its online gaming and instant ticket sales systems on Monday. Online gaming is the term of art for the system that lets you go into convenience store and pick numbers on a ticket, rather than just going and buying a scratch-off card.
- The NC Institute for Constitutional Law is expected to announce it has sued the state over the lottery law this afternoon. They will complain that the process by which the law came to pass circumvented constitutional safeguards. When asked if the lawsuit would affect the start up of the game, Lottery Commission Chairman Charles Sanders said, "That's not our department." Sanders said the lottery would plow ahead toward its April 5 start-date unless it has some reason (like an injunction) to stop.
- And in case you didn't see it, the lottery has hired a security director.