AZ Lotter Commission Performance Audit Report Highlights

Arizona State LotteryCommission andREPORT Lottery should take steps to increase sales andHIGHLIGHTS beneficiary distributionsPERFORMANCE AUDITThe Lottery provides Colorado ranked 17th out of the 28 statesOur Conclusion both instant ticket with sales of $102 per capita. Further,(scratcher) andIn 1980 Arizona citizens Arizona lottery sales started leveling off inestablished the Arizona drawing games for fiscal year 2007, and its beneficiaryState Lottery Commission the public to play. distributions not only leveled off, butto oversee the Arizona The Lottery had actually declined in fiscal year 2009 (seeState Lottery ". . . to$485 million in below). Source: Courtesy of theproduce the maximumArizona State Lottery. ticket sales andamount of net revenue Increasing number of retailers—Arizona’sconsonant with the dignity other revenues inlow per capita lottery sales may stemof the State." Eleven fiscal year 2009, paying out over $282partly from its having relatively few lotterydifferent programs or million in prizes and $129 million inbeneficiaries receive lottery retailers compared to other states. Fordistributions to beneficiaries, including therevenues. We found that example, Colorado had over 40 percentState General Fund, the Localalthough sales and more retailers per capita than Arizona inTransportation Assistance Fund, the Gamebeneficiary distributionsfiscal year 2008. Colorado had one retailerhave increased over the and Fish Heritage Fund, and the Statefor ...