Lottery Vending Machines: Enticing Minors to Gamble (Video)
In this video, we discuss why the lottery vending machines being touted are such a bad idea and how they’ll entice minors to gamble.
In this video, we discuss why the lottery vending machines being touted are such a bad idea and how they’ll entice minors to gamble.
The following is a press release from Family Council.
Today, Family Council criticized the lottery commission’s plan to install up to 100 lottery ticket vending machines in stores across the state.
“This is just another example of Arkansas’ lottery commission trying to institute as much gambling as possible as quickly as possible,” said Family Council President Jerry Cox. “In the last year since the lottery began, Arkansans have been inundated with more gambling than many states saw in the first 5 years of their lotteries.”
In this week’s video, we take a look at the possibility of lottery vending machines rolling out sometime this spring. The legislature is in session in Little Rock right now; I encourage each and every one of you to call your representative and your senator, and tell them how you feel about lottery vending machines popping up in your community.