Candidate stops selling raffle tickets online

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jul 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM MDT

Story Updated: Jul 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM MDT

HELENA - A candidate for state school superintendent says she has stopped selling raffle tickets for her Chevrolet El Camino online, after learning that Internet raffle sales are illegal.

Elaine Sollie Herman is a Republican from Helena. Last month she began selling raffle tickets for $30 apiece for a chance to win her green 1975 El Camino with a V-8 engine. She said she ordered the vehicle directly from the factory, and it had been driven only 30,000 miles.

Herman hoped to sell up to 10,000 tickets to raise $300,000 for her campaign. If no more than 500 tickets were sold, she said the winner would get half the proceeds. Herman says she stopped selling tickets online on Monday, after learning from the administrator of the state Gambling Control Division, Gene Huntington, that selling raffle tickets over the Internet was illegal.

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