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The Virginia Lottery, which was established in the year 1988, was started with the motive to ensure fair game and simultaneously also to guarantee that lottery proceeds are utilized for something productive for the state. Today Virginia Lottery has developed into a billion-dollar organization, which has continuously generated billion dollar profits in the last 5 years. Today, the Virginia Lottery enterprise is being headed by the first Afro-American director in the organization's history, and is continuously expanding its ambit over the years. The Virginia Lottery board consists of a healthy mix of citizens from within the state and they are appointed by the Governor of the state and serve the organization till the Governor wishes so.
Virginia Lottery conducts lottery games like Mega Millions, Cash 5, Pick 4, Win for Life, Scratchers, Pick 3 and fast Play Bingo, amongst all these games Mega Millions is the most popular lottery game not just in Virginia but also in he rest of the US. The state-run Virginia Lottery was designed so as to ensure that lottery proceeds go into something productive for the state. In the initial years of the state-run organization's history, Virginia Lottery proceeds went into capital construction projects. With the 90's these proceeds were invested into Virginia's General Fund. In 1999, bulk of lottery proceeds were spent in educational projects and after that finally in 2000, the State Lottery Proceeds fund was created which guarantees all profits from lottery to be used solely for the growth of education in the state. Lottery results in Virginia for all these games can be availed from the official website of Virginia Lottery or through the respective sites of each lottery game.
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