Michigan is currently taking steps towards legalization sports betting. Online casinos and poker rooms are expected to be legalized soon as well. For the time being though, residents of Michigan are limited to the Michigan Lottery as their only form of online gambling.Get more news about 菲律宾彩票包网服务 ,you can vist loto98.com Under the McCauley-Traxler-Law-Bowman-McNeely Lottery Act, the Michigan Lottery was established in 1972 in order to produce revenue for the state education fund.

The lottery started with 50-cent ticket sales with the first weekly drawing held on November 24. In 1975 the Michigan Lottery introduced instant tickets. Two years later in 1977, they introduced the state’s first numbers game (Daily 3). In 1981 they added Daily 4 numbers games. The Michigan Lotto began in 1984 and set a national record with $3.1 million in first-week sales. In 1996, Michigan launches “The Big Game” (now called the Mega Millions). The multi-state lottery game was done in conjunction with Illinois, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Virginia.

The Lottery has contributed nearly $21 billion to education in Michigan since its inception in 1972.Before the idea of an online lottery even came to Michigan, Senator Mike Green was proposing legislation to prohibit the Michigan Lottery from selling tickets online. Green said he put the bill together due to lottery officials inquiring about the possibility of online ticket sales. In April, then-Governor Rick Snyder proposed the idea of online lottery sales. Snyder claimed that an iLottery could bring in over $470 million in the next seven years for state education. Synder asked lawmakers to approve $3.4 million in funding to create an iLottery.

Lawmakers eventually denied his request. State Senator Rick Jones followed in Green’s footsteps and introduced a bill to prohibit online lottery sales. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette expressed the same concerns as Greene with online lottery sales, citing gambling addiction as the main concern. While Synder’s funding request was denied, the Michigan Lottery dipped into its own budget to create an online platform. Lottery officials claimed that the iLottery would increase contributions to the state School Aid Fund by $480 million over the next eight years, close to the projections that Snyder claimed.