fter eight months of lottery ticket sales topping budgeted projections, those sales are starting to arc downward.Through the first three quarters of fiscal 2020, lottery sales... morefter eight months of lottery ticket sales topping budgeted projections, those sales are starting to arc downward.Through the first three quarters of fiscal 2020, lottery sales were running 1.8 percent ahead of last year’s record pace. However, sales of lottery products in March were about $2 million short of the budgeted expectation of $30.9 million.Get more news about 彩票API,you can vist loto98.com Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer said the lottery’s operating expenses are 14.63 percent under budget, thanks to conservative fiscal practices and to the use of a five-year rolling average of sales and expenses “to take into account the fluctuations in results that will occur and should be expected.” However, she noted, “the current year is outside the norm in so many, many ways,” given the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic that arrived in Iowa last month. This fiscal year’s sales are 2.76 percent below the lottery’s five-year gross sales average through March, Neubauer noted.... less