Mega Millions Lottery Tickets Megamillions Megamillion Mega Million Powerball Lottery Tickets Powerball Tickets and Powerball Online

Buy Mega Million Lottery Tickets

Some state legislators have proposed legalizing electronic slot machines at seven horse racetracks and allowing Internet keno games.

And Zanotti fears there is a movement afoot to build casinos on American Indian-owned land in the Shelby County town of Botkins as well as near Youngstown and Sandusky.

"If tribal casinos open in Ohio, they will bankrupt the Ohio Lottery and Ohio racetracks,'' he said.

In July, Judge Daniel T. Hogan of Franklin County Common Pleas Court ruled that joining a multistate lottery was not unconstitutional, but diverting the game's proceeds from education to balance the state budget was.

Hogan said the state cannot use proceeds from Mega Millions to fund programs unrelated to public education.

Lottery profits make up 9 percent of Ohio's share of money for education.