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Open intelligence Home "Connecticut State Lottery: What actually happened?

Connecticut iLottery: What happened?

Mark E. Fitch May 5, 2024 May 3, 2024

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In 2021, the General Assembly and Governor Neda Ramont supported the tribal Masha Enuk and Figs online casinos, the tribal sports rate, the lottery company Connecticut (CLC), and the online lottery through CT Lotty.

With this movement, Connecticut states were hoped that it could rise simultaneously with almost all other states that legally legalized online shops and gambling, and to increase the profits of the state. According to the economic memo attached to the bill, the Connecticut Art Foundation could get $ 36 million in 2023, and could increase to $ 74 million in 2026. There is.

Almost immediately, the tribes started online casinos and sports rates through their own fan-duel and popular concept king sports rates nationwide. Only in January 2022, the casino was sent to the state of $ 3 million from online casinos and almost $ 1 million from sports tariffs.

However, the release of the CT Lotary to the universe with online games and sports verting was never implemented as planned. In the month, CT Lottary ended in March 2023 in March 2023, in March 2023, in March 2023, in March 2023, through sports betting through sports betting through the unique most popular supplier Rush Street. 。 In September 2023, CT Lotty concluded a partnership with Fanatics.

CL C-Not paying attention to the fact that the company decided to come under the fire of sports, it has the unique experience of profit and the ability outside the reliable sourc e-Lottery is the past. The resale of online lottery, which is more than 400 million people in the national labor in the year, was forced to relocate and freeze for the sem i-national organization.

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In their own public testimony submitted by the Social Protection Committee, the CT Lotto Board Robert T. Symmelkyer II Chairman and CT Lotto Gregory Smith, Irotti and online Keno, have a Connecticut system. He moved to the 21st century and wrote that the freshest generation player was wrapped in a lot.

For example, three years after the law was established, the Iroti system in Connecticut was not started. In other words, Iroti did not have a little income in a year and two years of $ 2 million to $ 3 million and $ 19 million in 2026.

According to the enacted law, Irotti, who was actually planning profits from Irotti, needed to create a fund to implement tickets from online losers, and from 2024, this fund was 14 million. In order to support the "Public Research Institute without debt" to bring a dollar, students who have the right to attend public research institute will be possible.

This has not yet been realized. In fact, IlottyRy, knowing in the economic year of 2024, which began in July 2023, may not provide the necessary income, but it is likely to earn, but from the state's joint fund. This state has been postponed for 2023, which changed its location to transfer $ 15 million every year to the "Public Research Institute" account without debt.

In addition, buttett extended Irotti's income forecast to $ 2 million in 2025 and $ 3 million in 2026, much lower than that of $ 19 million in 2021.

Gaming casinos and CT Lotty lottery have long been a daily cow for the Ministry of Finance. Before the online gambling was legalized, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun excreted $ 255 million in 2019, and CT Lottery raised $ 370 million. These numbers were increasing with the announcement of legalized online gambling.

Basically, online casinos, sports betting, lottery, people were playing. But they were not playing with lotteries.

According to the posted report, it was thought that the connecticut would ultimately launch the ILOTETY system in the fall of 2023, but this did not happen in connection with the question: what happened. Why launch an ILOTTY system with a connecticut LED, for example, a lot of time?

"I think it is possible to completely confident that we are disappointed with the method we are actually doing, we would have wanted to go to the bazaar sooner," Art Mongillo, "Art Mongillo. A manager of the CT Lotto people said. "Well, in fact, we drew a happy personality, we stated that we had no opposition, while the product was not bad, for example, it would take a lot of time. I'm disappointed "

There are some problems that occurred due to CLC mistakes.

When the law was adopted in 2021, CT Lotti was a fresh supplier-an international company that controls the lottery, a million-dollar company, and California. It was the process of reconstructing the entire lottery system that covers these states, such as state, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Georgia. IGT products are also used in Connecticut Casino.

The IGT-based company was selected in a competitive basis to set up a new central system for CT Lotty in September 2021. The contract period is 10 years and can be extended for three years. The IGT also provides Irotti platforms, so it has actually integrated the Irotti central system in Connecticut.

In May 2023, when IGT launched a fresh central aurora system for CLC, CT Lotry and IGT concluded another eigh t-year contract on the IGT ILOTTY platform and the game supply, and in October 2023. The release is scheduled to start. According to the contract conditions, IGT has the right to 12 and 94 percent of Ilotty's total income, meaning that the hitch is virtually all funding.

The IGT has released a mobile application so that the lottery player can explore his tickets and receive notifications about the winning rooms without visiting physical space, but purchased and supported tickets. A Mobile Device Support and CT Lotto-The opportunity to trade in games has not yet started.

"Initially, we wanted to introduce the ILottery system and then change our overall game system," Mongillo says. "If we all leaked smoothly at that point, we could switch Ilottery for 6-8 months, introduce patches, test patches, and then guarantee us. In order to do so, I found the integration of the entire system and thought that everything was actually all works.

"It's a lot easier to say what to do," Mongilo says. "These steps take a lot of time, especially if you want to make sure you meet legal requirements and make sure everything goes right the first time."

But by February 2024, Ilottle was still behind schedule. According to the minutes of the CLC board meeting, CLC President Gregory Smith said, "The launch of the Ilotty platform has been further delayed, and IGT has known about the regulatory requirements for about a year, but has only just met some of them. As of now, there is no expected date for the new launch.

The Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) has been instructed to regulate all online gambling and gaming systems, including Ilotty. IGT had a platform that could theoretically be connected to the existing CLC system, but had to make changes to bring it into line with Connecticut's strict legal requirements. Given the testing that IGT and CLC have performed, the minor changes requested by DCP could delay the launch date by six to eight weeks.

The District Attorney's Office in November 2021 and the Rules Review Board in January 2022 voted 11-2 to approve the amendment. The voluminous rules, approved by a majority vote, included requirements such as geozonation to ensure only Connecticut residents could play, independent testing of the system, coding, licensing requirements, accounting accounts, and many other detailed technical requirements.

The legalization of online gaming and gambling has sparked litigation, and staff wanted to ensure the system was working properly to avoid minors and people from other states, and the prospect of encouraging problematic gaming and gambling, as Connecticut wants to increase revenue at the expense of previously prohibited activities. The gambling legalization bill was passed in the same year as the Connecticut Retail Cannabis Legalization Act, and its regulation was also left to the DCP.

IGT has a basic product that can be plugged into the CLC system, but it must make modifications to account for the different laws in each jurisdiction in which the company operates. The company, one of the world's two largest lottery system providers, has implemented an elote system in other states, but it seems to have problems in Connecticut. For this comment, IGT referred the investigator back to CLC.

"DCP has a really strict and strict legal requirement for similar things. Like us, they also function at one time, there is no error in the system, excluded from the game. There is no doubt that there is no opportunity to act in the errored error.

And it is very important that everything works well from the beginning. " Several problems occurred during the implementation of the new central CLC system of IGT.

According to the CT insider, the "technical problem" has received the "confused message" in the CT Lotto game. This is combined with some other problems that have led to only 38 of the 168 sel f-service lottery Kiosk by December 2023, so that DCP recovers lost profits and compliance. He began investigating the IGT with the possibility of imposing a fine for violations.

Kate Lin Clas Selt, DCP's spokeswoman is not under investigation, but IGT says "I have passed the license and testing of an online gambling platform, which is considered a long process." It is new to Igaming, "he said.

Holly CHEESEMAN, East Lime, and Connecticut State states that Financial, Revenue, and Bonds Committee members say that the technical issues of CT Rotry appear Ta.

"It is impossible to say that the lottery of Connecticut has not had a task in recent years. Similarly, it will introduce new technologies and new systems like some family climate disease. In particular, there are several issues, "said CHEESEMAN. "I don't have any problems with this, taking into account that DCP has identified the best stereotypes," he said. "If we intend to introduce this system like I lottery, we are not only safe, but also protected by people who do not have the legitimate right to access it, for example. I believe it is necessary to confirm.

"On the other hand, for example, it is impossible to say that it takes a lot of time and why it does not know the content of the request in advance, and I have no choice but to guess. "In fact, it is not easy to say what other states are urgently seeking in system security projects, tests, and other states, without taking into account the specific content. DCP is always like this. Although we have dealt with the problem, it seems unusual to have such a large number of problems in consideration of the lon g-term situation of IGT. "

MONGILLO believes that in addition to compliance with Connecticat's regulation law, there was a lack of misunderstandings and communication between IGT and DCP, which also caused delay.

"There was a problem with the communication between the two. I don't want to hurry to put a bad product on the market.

In recent years, Chizuman points out that DCP has increased many jobs due to the legalization of marijuana's luxury sales, online games, and alcoholic beverages. "They had a lot of work," says Chizuman.

Each new DCP costs personnel expenses, but may be offset by license fees. According to OFA, it costs $ 2, 4 million to $ 3, 000 million to legalize online sports engines and DCP gambling.

According to the estimation of the law on the Connecticut, which was passed in 2021 and also causes regulatory authorities complaints, according to estimated, $ 25 million, $ 7 million, to DCP, to DCP. When the dollar is drawn, the fiscal notebook states. DCP can write a fine and add that it may lead to an increase in the income of the general fund.

In 2021, DCP assigned $ 13 to $ 13 to the total fund, about 55 % of the total budget, including federal government funds. In 2023, $ 18 million was controlled by $ 14. 9 million from the total fund, a federal government and other restricted funds, and another $ 2 million was contributed from the sporting fee regulation fund established after the Gambling Legalization Law. 。 DCP's total budget increased from $ 25 million in 2021 to $ 36. 7 million in 2023.

Meanwhile, Congid Cut Congressmaker and Governor Ramont had no revenue from Iloti, so he had to assign $ 15 million a year to support the free municipal university.

"Three years ago, we introduced a municipal university free of charge. We knew we could cover the costs, but we waited for a while," said Chizuman. "It seems strange that Irotry has been doing it for a long time, but it hasn't reached this situation yet."

If the subsequent tasks of IGT and DCP do not make their exterior, Mongillo ignores the delay of about three years, in fact, CLC is at the test finishing stage, and the connecticut Irotachi is until the end of May. I believe it will be started.

"Despite the fact that IgT and DCP are required to make a decision, CLC is still being tested and we are at the goal," Mongillo said. "We want to believe that CLC is in line with our standards. We will test it and convince that it actually conforms to the integration with the lottery system. But I think it will be in the middle of May.

According to the latest CLC board protocol on April 11, Smith actually, after the board crossed the executive session, in fact, "several more problems that need to be resolved between DCP and IGT before launch. Install that there is, discuss it between the rest, and update the iLottery.

The CLC technical issues, the expansion of sports fees, and the appeal of regulatory authorities are not limited to ILOTTY. As already mentioned, disability in the new system not only provides the opportunity to investigate DCP, but also requires a lot of time, according to the text of the CLC's highest executive Officer Smith, requires a lot of time. It also caused a delay in the legal passage of all lottery games by third party, the power of the third party.

"During our fresh lottery system, an unpleasant error in programming occurred and influenced the number of lotteries" Smith was written by writing and his own social protection and protection committee. I mentioned. "If the number of tickets is unacceptable, CLC will not be corrected every time the system misses the player, but these mistakes finally appeared in a strange series of events because they finally appeared. Basically, the test labs will not be tested.

"CLC is also depicted by an important cost that has hundreds of thousands of possibilities that can reach hundreds of thousands of possibilities in the future, when the third party test is used in the future for any change in lottery systems and games. I wrote a Smith, who understands from experience.

However, in addition to the mania online platform, the CLC also includes the right to provide sports fare with 15 body points throughout the state. I cover it.

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However, space, especially collaboration with sports bars and restaurants, could be unstable. In 2022, CLC announced that it would partners with Arooga's Sports Bar Arooga's in Shelton and provide sports betting. Two years later, in February 2024, Aruga closes forever.

But for CLC, sports charges are by no means urgent bread. CLC has more than 400 million in the state of the nation every year to implement the lottery, and online peverents access to Bazaar is a more natural and unique transition that does not cause concerns. It will be a market share that competes with civilization.

While CLC is preparing to launch its own Ilotapratform, management will be replaced. At the end of 2024, Sumit, CLC's CEO, announced that he would effectively resign at CLC with a salary of $ 270. 000, and received 10 % awards based on his work. Later, CT Lotto started a new general manager scout.

IGT and DC P-period, in CLC, it may shine through a certain number of regulatory acts to start ILOTTY until the completion of Smith's work, but Mongillo is basically the leadership in charge of this trip. He says that the period is not in their hands.

"IGT, them, and DCP-balls are currently in their hands," said Mongiro.

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