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about the lottery belongs there. Of course, I would
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be pleased from the standpoint of my being for a
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lottery to have a provision in the Constitution that
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says the Legislature may authorize the lottery rather
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than have this provision we have now. But this would
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be inconsistent with my main argument. I say it doesn't
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belong in the new Constitution.
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THE CHAIRMAN: It wouldn't commend itself,
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would it, to have a proliferation of county lotteries
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and city lotteries and town lotteries?
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MR. PRESSMAN: I don't think it would be
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good at all. I think it would create a great deal of
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confusion and wouldn't accomplish the purposes that a
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state-operated lottery would accomplish. The one that
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I propose would be a lottery operated by the state for
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the benefit of the local subdivisions and the money would
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be distributed to the local subdivisions in proportion
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to the amount of tickets sold in those local subdivisions.
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I feel that some of the local subdivisions would probably
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want to have some formula which would be a little different
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from that in that some of the outlying counties, which
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