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| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois State Lottery, its private-sector |
| 3 | | affiliate, Northstar Lottery Group, and its
retail partners |
| 4 | | offer a wide variety of lottery games of chance to Illinois |
| 5 | | residents, including a family
of ticket games called |
| 6 | | "scratch-offs"; scratch-off tickets are sold one-by-one from |
| 7 | | rolls of
tickets offered for sale at a retailer; and
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| 8 | | WHEREAS, Recent investigative journalism has uncovered |
| 9 | | that many rolls of scratch-off lottery
tickets are withdrawn |
| 10 | | from sale in Illinois long before all of the prizes printed on |
| 11 | | the tickets have
been awarded; this conduct is defended on the |
| 12 | | grounds that what is being sold is not a pile of prizes,
but a |
| 13 | | series of tickets each of which offer a mathematical chance to |
| 14 | | win one prize, and if the
mathematical odds are maintained for |
| 15 | | each individual ticket then there is no harm and no foul in
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| 16 | | playing games with the pile; and
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| 17 | | WHEREAS, The probity of this argument depends upon the |
| 18 | | accuracy of the assertion that the
mathematical chance for one |
| 19 | | scratch-off ticket to win one prize is maintained, and there is |
| 20 | | some
skepticism on this point; therefore, be it
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| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
| 22 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE |