N.M. was selling 4,000 lotto tickets a minute

From KRQE-TV.com - ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - New Mexicans are feeling the power of the Powerball. Lottery officials say they sold more than 4,000 tickets every minute in New Mexico. Between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday lottery customers spent almost $800,000 on Powerball tickets.That's about 400,000 individual tickets in just three hours.
At least 30-percent of all lottery ticket sales go to the state's struggling lottery scholarship program. Overall lottery sales this year are down about $2 million from 2011 and down a whopping $17 million from six years ago. The scholarship program is facing a $5 million shortfall, and the Legislature is looking at tighter requirements. Read more

N.M. was selling 4,000 lotto tickets a minute