Internet-enabled sweepstakes videogames that pay cash prizes are cropping up from Florida to Virginia, leaving city and state officials in a quandary about how to respond. The games have long flourished in North Carolina, where House Speaker Joe Hackney (D-Chapel Hill) recently predicted the state legislature might amend the law to ban video sweepstakes games if the courts fail to do so. At least two district court judges have upheld the legality of the machines in North Carolina.
But now payoff sweepstakes games -- many located in Internet cafés -- have begun to proliferate elsewhere up and down the Eastern seaboard. In Florida, 400 people jammed a city council meeting in Jacksonville this month to debate the status of the games. As Internet sweepstakes gamerooms increase throughout the state, enforcement policies vary from one county to the next, and sometimes within a single county, according to local press sources.
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