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Unlike many other state agencies, the Idaho Lottery is self-funding and self-governing. The Idaho Lottery’s mission is to maximize the dividend that is given back to the state to distribute between the K-12 public schools and the Permanent Building Fund. To date, the Idaho Lottery has given back $275 million to the State of Idaho.
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"The Idaho Lottery is a new customer for Scientific Games and we look forward to building a partnership for years to come. We plan on using our portfolio of innovative instant ticket games to reach and maintain a higher level of sales, which will help to maximize the funds available for Idaho public schools and their permanent building fund," said Lorne Weil, Chairman and CEO of Scientific Games.
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The Idaho Lottery set a new industry record by implementing a lottery within 200 days. The first Idaho Lottery ticket was sold on July 19, 1989. On that first day of sales, players purchased more than 840,000 tickets throughout Idaho. That first year resulted in $65 million in sales and the first dividend check of $17,225,000 was given to the "People of the State of Idaho." That was a good sign of things to come."
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Since its inception, the Idaho Lottery has offered lottery players over 300 different scratch games. During the 2001 Fiscal Year, scratch sales ranked Idaho as 23rd in national per capita scratch sales. West of the Mississippi, Idaho ranked 10th per capita scratch sales. That same year scratch sales accounted for 63% of total Lottery sales.
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The Idaho Lottery was established by Nov. 1998, by state voters. The first Idaho Lottery games were launch on July 19th 1989. The ID Lotto game was launched Feb. 1, 1990. The Idaho joined... in 1990, the Lotto America game, which became Powerball.
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The Idaho Lottery system was tested Monday. Actual alert messages would be printed on the backs of lottery tickets and posted at approximately 900 lottery ticket outlets in Idaho. The Boise office of the National Weather Service serves as a back-up to State Communications in southwest Idaho. It was not involved in the actual test this week.
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