Texas Looking to Future

The Texas Lottery is currently evaluating where they are at in terms of servicing their clients. The Governor is looking to sell the servicing of the lottery to an outside financial firm, which will probably mean some big changes for the lottery. One of the things that are currently under consideration is the idea of bringing in slot machines.

Bringing in online games, Keno, or video slot machines will completely change the way the lottery is viewed, and many say not for the better. They say that by adding in these things they are opening the door for other slot machines and out and out gambling to come in.

The governor has been entertaining offers from $14 to $28 billion, and people say that with that kind of money comes a promise of slot machines and gambling. They say that they are surrounded by slot machines and gambling in other states, and that if people are looking for that, it can be just a bus ride away. However, lottery officials and the governor say that they need to see what can be done with the lottery from an outside source.

The beauty of it for many is that the deal would have to go through the Legislature who does not seem keen on legalizing any sort of slot machine or expanding gambling. They seem to feel that the addition of slot machines, or keno, or online gambling, would require a constitutional amendment – as would the sale of the lottery itself.

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