NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Commission met this afternoon to talk about the special session. The director is pushing the idea that video gaming would increase lottery sales, which in turn produces more scholarships for students in Arkansas.
In this monitor-style game, players select numbers. Every four minutes results are placed on a monitor.
Director Bishop Woosely says adding this style of game could lead to 12 million dollars more in sales every year. But the idea is getting some resistance from state leaders who say video gaming resembles gambling and it’s not what voters intended when they approved the creation of a state lottery in 2008.
“We’re not expanding beyond the scope of the lottery. We’re doing what we’re allowed to do under the statute,” said Woosely
Woosley plans to attend the special legislative session next week and explain video-gaming to lawmakers and how he says it could benefit Arkansas students.
The plan is to have the monitor-gaming systems in place by this fall.
