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Agency suggests Oklahoma could raise more from lottery

 
BY RANDY KREHBIEL - Tulsa World    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: December 29, 2009

Oklahoma squeezes a better return from its lottery than most states do from theirs, but it might get more if it loosened some rules, U.S. Census Bureau data suggest.

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Oklahoma ranks high in the percentage of lottery proceeds netted for government use, but is low in actual lottery sales and dollars netted, according to information gathered by the Census Bureau as part of its annual survey of state government finances.

Rollo Redburn, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission’s director of administration, said the statistics were not surprising.

"We’ve tried to tell the Legislature that if we lift the revenue restrictions, as sales go up, some of the costs will go down,” he said.

But Redburn also cautioned against reading too much into the Census Bureau figures. Variations in state lotteries and their governance make strict comparisons difficult, he said.

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