Amendment on MN Ballot for Lottery Funds

(Learfield News/St. Paul, MN) — A constitutional amendment on the election ballot asks voters whether 40 percent of state lottery proceeds should continue going to the environment and outdoors.

Minnesota Lottery Director Adam Prock they don’t have a position on how the money gets spent, their job is to raise the dollars. He says,” those funds help make sure we have clean air and clean water, keeping invasive species out, and doing all the things that Minnesotans are really proud of.”

Prock says the lottery has contributed more than a billion dollars to the Environment and Natural Resource Trust Fund since 1991.

Leaving the ballot question blank is considered a “no” vote.