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Joe Propst wrote:

>      That's kind of what I figured.  I've written to my districts state
> legislator about the matter and would encourage all to do the same.  If
> you don't know who your districts rep is you can find out and email them
> from the following URL:
> 
>                    http://www.scri.fsu.edu/fla-leg/
> 
>      The only way we will be able to pull the law makers into the 21st
> century is by collectively bombing them with mail to change the system.

There are two ways of looking at that. Sweepstakes has been my business for nearly 15 years. 
In that time I've watched grassroots movements to change the laws in more than 20 states and 
territories. In a few cases they've been successful and done what the people who proposed the 
changes were hoping would be done. But in most cases all it's done is bring to the attention 
of lawmakers something they had left alone for years -- and once they started meddling with 
the laws they've made things even worse. :(

Florida's laws, with the exception of the requirement for a bond are quite liberal and 
entrant-friendly. For example, we =can= enter many types of sweeps that other states 
prohibit, such as those sponsored by liquor and tobacco companies and by gasoline stations, 
all of which are prohibited in a number of other states.

The fact is that most World Wide Web sweeps wouldn't have to be void in Florida, either, if 
the promoters worked it properly. Most of them don't even fall into the category where it's 
needed. Sweeps on the Internet are in their infancy, and most of them 

a) are handled by the sponsor rather than by professional judging agencies as most mail-in 
sweeps are, and

b) because they don't know what they're doing, they just copy the rules from others, often 
making their sweeps void in Florida just because another one was, even when it wouldn't have 
to be.

It won't be long before Internet sponsors begin to use judging agencies more frequently. And 
when that happens, the judging agencies' blanket bond that covers mail-ins and allows 
Floridians to enter their sweeps will also apply to the ones on the Web.

--
Nadine
Editor, SWEEPSTAKES UPDATE
http://www.pobox.com/~sweeps.update