Buy Tickets Online
There has been great confusion about purchasing powerball tickets online through web sites offering to purchase powerball tickets or shares of powerball tickets for you, and then dispersing any winnings. You may see advertisements on some, or many other privately owned, Powerball web sites, offering to purchase Powerball tickets on your behalf. Additionally, they will normally post a statement of fact, that no complaints have been filed and that they are in good standing. This may be true. However, it may also be true that there has been no winners, therefore no complaints. For the benefit of my readers I have included information directly from the Multi-State Lottery Association web site's FAQ page, concerning buying powerball tickets online. I have highlighted certain parts of the text to make it easier to find pertinent responses to the questions regarding, purchasing Powerball tickets online. Finally, here is the link to their page of FAQ. If you go there and read their FAQ, I am sure you will be amused by the authors humor. I was.
CAN I BUY POWERBALL TICKETS THROUGH THE INTERNET?
No, at least not in the way that you might hope. Powerball tickets can only legally be purchased at a state lottery sales terminal in the lottery jurisdictions that sells the Powerball game. A lottery can also legally sell tickets on the Internet, but only to persons within its own state. No one can sell lottery tickets by mail or over the Internet across state lines or the U.S. national border. No one. Not even us. No one. No, not even that web site. Or that one. You really don't need to send me questions about a specific site. Like all others, that one also cannot legally sell lottery tickets across a state border or the U.S. border. No. Any Internet lottery site that purports to sell Powerball tickets, or “shares” of Powerball tickets to purchasers or to run a “service” for you, is operating illegally. They are not authorized by the Multi-State Lottery Association or by any U.S. lottery. There are legal Internet sales of lottery tickets in some states or countries, but only within the borders of that state/country or by agreement between nations. The United States has no agreements with any other nation to allow lottery tickets sales across the national border. The laws of your state prohibit the purchase of another state’s lottery ticket across state lines. Federal laws also make out-of-state lottery plays across a state line illegal. You can legally travel to another state, buy a ticket, and bring it back to your home state. If it ever does become legal, we will sell tickets here for $1. No.
CAN I PLAY POWERBALL FROM OUTSIDE THE STATE OR THE U.S.?
No. Repeat as necessary.
CAN A NON-RESIDENT WIN POWERBALL?
If you legally purchase a Powerball ticket, you can play the game and you can collect prizes. You do not have to be a citizen or a resident to play the game. You can be a tourist. That said, some states (MD, NC, ND) do have rules that seem to imply that a winner must produce evidence of citizenship or a federal SSN, but there are other ways to hold back taxes for a winner who does not have a U.S. SSN. Occasionally, some state lawmaker talks about limiting wins to U.S. citizens, but no laws have passed so far. Powerball's FAQ page
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