Those who bought losing scratch-off tickets for the Texas lottery should still be able to enter online for a follow-up contest, according to an opinion issued by the Attorney General’s office this week.

The Texas Lottery Commission offers the second-chance "promotional" drawing, nicknamed the “Luck Zone,” which allows players who to enter their scratch-off ticket numbers online for another chance at a prize. But in January, state Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, asked Attorney General Greg Abbott to determine whether these online submissions were legal, as well as whether the commission could conduct “any game of chance via the ...

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