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A statewide referendum must be passed to amend the Georgia Constitution to allow a lottery. January 31, 1991: Resolution to put lottery amendment before voters passes the Georgia House 126-51 and is adopted by a 47–9 vote of the Georgia Senate. November 3, 1992: Georgia voters pass the lottery amendment 1,146,340-1,050,674.
The GLC was created by a separate bill in 1992 by the Georgia General Assembly, and then-governor of Georgia, Zell Miller, in the Lottery for Education Act (OCGA 50-27). Rebecca Paul , who began the Florida Lottery , then ran the Georgia Lottery for its first decade, before leaving to launch Tennessee Lottery in 2004.
[1] [2] The lottery system was utilized by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 “to strengthen the state and increase the population in order to increase Georgia's power in the House of Representatives.” [3] Although some other states used land lotteries, none were implemented at the scale of the Georgia contests. [4]
The Georgia lottery counters that its scholarship has allowed more than 2.1 million students to attend state universities and technical colleges since it was founded.
If lottery tickets were a routine purchase for you in 2023, add up your totals. Let’s see how much you spent and if it’s close to the average Georgia resident.
Someone in Marietta, Georgia, matched five numbers to win the seven-figure prize in the Powerball drawing on Wednesday, April 3, according to Georgia Lottery officials. The lucky ticket was sold ...
The 1832 Land Lottery was the sixth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to appropriate Cherokee and Muscogee land to settlers. The 1832 lottery was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by acts of December 21, 1830
In the previous fiscal year that ended last month, the Georgia Lottery raised more than $1.5 billion.