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Lottery ticket sales open for Trump visit to Mount Rushmore

South Dakota tourism officials say the number of ticket requests Friday for President Donald Trump’s planned appearance at a Mount Rushmore fireworks show were nearly four times the amount available in the lottery.Get more news about 彩票API,you can vist loto98.com

Officials said they received nearly 5,700 applications requesting nearly 29,000 tickets by midday on Friday, the first day of ticket sales, the Rapid City Journal reported. Maximum capacity for the July 3 event is 7,500 people in ticketed areas.
The fireworks display at Mount Rushmore to celebrate Independence Day has not happened since 2009, when it was ended because of fire danger after a pine beetle infestation.

It costs $1 to enter the lottery, which is a non-refundable fee and doesn’t guarantee tickets. Those who are selected to receive tickets won’t pay any additional cost.

Lottery ticket sales will close 10 a.m. Monday. Tickets will be awarded by Friday.As a result, last month Powerball slashed its beginning guaranteed minimum jackpot from $40 million to $20 million due to reduced sales. It also cut its guaranteed minimum rollover increase from $10 million to $2 million.Other sources said lottery scratch-off ticket sales are soaring.

For example, in Oklahoma, total lottery sales were just over $7.7 million for the week ending April 25, up about 75% compared with the same time last year, driven almost entirely by scratch-offs. That included nearly $5.9 million in scratch-off sales, up from $2.5 million last year according to Jay Finks, Marketing director for the Oklahoma Lottery.

Les Bernal, national director for Stop Predatory Gambling, said “People play state lotteries when they are financially desperate. We have 30 million people who are unemployed.