The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas informed the Texas Senate that if it didn’t rein in the online sales of Texas Lottery tickets, the tribe would pursue full-blown casino gambling in the state.
Though the tribe omitted it from their correspondence, recent legal developments might mean these casinos won’t be housed on reservations; they might pockmark the entire state.
The letter, submitted to the Senate State Affairs Committee on October 9, highlighted that proliferating courier services are “operating contrary to the law and representing an expansion of gambling in the State.”
The Kickapoo are calling for a prohibition on the services’ operations.
As the tribe sees it, purchasing a lottery ticket online is simply placing a bet, and the drawing is an outcome of the bet. They call the current setup, in which an online player pays for a ticket from an app, a workaround for the state’s prohibition on internet gambling.
The tribe’s letter also noted that state law prohibits sales by a person who is not a sales agent or an employee of a sales agent. This is problematic for ...
