ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) is reaching out to its members to drive a grassroots campaign against lottery sales being allowed online. In an email campaign, senior vice president of government relations Lyle Beckwith urged NACS members to "take action now."
The email reads:
"For over 50 years, federal legislation prohibited gambling over phone lines and later the Internet. In 2011, the Department of Justice announced it was completely re-interpreting the law to only prohibit sports betting. This opened the floodgates for all forms of Internet gambling ... including the sale of lottery tickets online. NACS is supporting legislation that would restore the original interpretation of the Wire Act of 1961.
"Take action now--protect in-store traffic by requesting that your legislators do not support the purchase of lottery tickets online. In just two minutes this grassroots system will generate pre-drafted, editable letters to your federal legislators requesting that they support passage of the Restoration of America's Wire Act."
Founded in 1961 as the National Association of Convenience Stores, Alexandria, Va.-based NACS is the international association for convenience store and gas station retailing. It has 2,100 retail and 1,600 supplier member companies that do business in nearly 50 countries.
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