The Great Maine Moose Lottery Scam!!
© 2012 Brent Reece
This is my Opinion…like it or not. Take your whining somewhere else if you don’t!
I have been putting in for a moose permit since just about day one. Granted not every last year but about every other since the start. I HAVE NEVER BEEN DRAWN!! Not one time!
In 1998 they came up with this really great “scam” to get more cash and still not give out more permits. The let you buy more points…i.e. more chances to win in the lottery. The states own stats say that out of the 49,000 applicants there are 3500 that have never been drawn, from 1998 til now and earlier. Guess that’s my category.
Now they are killing off the point’s scheme, but you get to keep the points you have already accrued. Each person gets one chance, residents only anyways. The flatlanders still get to do it the old way among their 10% pool of permits. So us residents now are given a score based on our past failure to draw that somehow increases our possibility to draw. Based on this score the lower the points the greater the chance to get drawn finally.
Bullshit!
Want to read the whole thing for yourself and see if I’m as full of it as they are?
http://www.pressherald.com/news/improving-the-odds_2012-01-31.html?searchterm=moose+lottery
I think all of us who have held licenses since the start and have never been drawn… should be in our own lottery…or get first dibs on all permits in all areas. Wouldn’t be hard for them to generate a computer list of all of us. Then notify us that we are eligible for this special drawing. Anyone who does not want in, can opt out. The rest should be first to get drawn. Do this one year, then toss out all the schemes and do it as a straight up lottery, each person one chance. There should also be a restriction that only one permit per household/address. Instead of having one family getting at least one permit each year and in a lot of cases multiple permits in the same year.
Glad to hear your comments!!
