Minnesota gambling opponents target online scratch game

KARE 11 – A coalition of gambling opponents Thursday called on state lawmakers to pass a bill blocking the Minnesota Lottery from launching an online scratch game, or electronic instant ticket. “We’re going to be able to go online and instantly be able to play a game of chance with instant scratch-offs, so they’re progressing very rapidly at the Lottery,” Jake Grassel of Citizens Against Gambling Expansion, or CAGE, told reporters at the State Capitol. The paper version the scratch-off games have been part of the lotto landscape in Minnesota since April of 1990, when the first tickets were sold…