{"id":501550,"date":"2021-05-12T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501550"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:05:19","slug":"ohio-opens-vaccine-lottery-5-residents-to-win-1-million-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-opens-vaccine-lottery-5-residents-to-win-1-million-each\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Opens Vaccine Lottery, 5 Residents To Win $1 Million Each"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fohio-opens-vaccine-lottery-5-residents-to-win-1-million-each%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1058491048-scaled-e1620858990268.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday a vaccine lottery system that will distribute a whopping $1 million each to lucky winners.<\/p>\n<p>Adults who have received at least their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine will be eligible to participate in the lottery drawing, which begins May 26. DeWine said that for five weeks, one winner will be chosen each Wednesday, receiving $1 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.567567567568\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two weeks from tonight on May 26th, we will announce a winner of a separate drawing for adults who have received at least their first dose of the vaccine. This announcement will occur each Wednesday for five weeks, and the winner each Wednesday will receive one million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Mike DeWine (@GovMikeDeWine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeDeWine\/status\/1392597174014332929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In order to win, individuals must be at least 18 or older, a resident of the state, and vaccinated, DeWine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeDeWine\/status\/1392597511802609667?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>, noting there will be more guidelines released in coming days. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/04\/town-japan-230000-covid-19-relief-funds-build-giant-squid-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Town In Japan Used Nearly $230,000 In COVID-19 Relief Funds To Build Giant Squid Statue)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that some may say, \u2018DeWine, you\u2019re crazy! This million-dollar drawing idea of yours is a waste of money.\u2019 But truly, the real waste at this point in the pandemic \u2013 when the vaccine is readily available to anyone who wants it \u2013 is a life lost to COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.521472392638\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I know that some may say, \u201cDeWine, you\u2019re crazy! This million-dollar drawing idea of yours is a waste of money.\u201d But truly, the real waste at this point in the pandemic \u2014 when the vaccine is readily available to anyone who wants it \u2014 is a life lost to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Mike DeWine (@GovMikeDeWine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeDeWine\/status\/1392597516265435139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s Secretary of State will pool the names together based on the state\u2019s publicly available voter registration database, DeWine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMikeDeWine\/status\/1392597506182234118?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. There will also be a separate webpage for people to manually input their information if it isn\u2019t already on the database.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Department of Health \u201cwill be the sponsoring agency for the drawing\u201d and the Ohio Lottery will conduct the drawing, according to DeWine.<\/p>\n<p>The money will be drawn from the state\u2019s Coronavirus Relief Funds.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio received $4.5 billion in March of 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/2021\/03\/ohio-senate-approves-spending-920-million-in-federal-coronavirus-relief-money.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cleveland 2020<\/a>. As part of President Joe Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion relief package, Ohio is slated to get an additional $5.4 billion in aid, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/05\/11\/what-ohio-cities-and-counties-get-american-rescue-plan-federal-stimulus\/5037313001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Columbus Dispatch<\/a>. An additional $6.6 billion will go straight to Ohio cities and all counties.<\/p>\n<p>The money can be used to address problems from the pandemic but cannot be used to cut taxes, pay debt, or be placed in a fund. The plan also stipulates the funds cannot be used directly or indirectly to \u201coffset revenue loss from tax revenues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Republican Attorney General Dave Yost <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/17\/ohio-attorney-general-covid-19-relief-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued<\/a> the federal government in March over the stipulation, arguing the stipulation basically prevents states from implementing any tax deductions at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tax Mandate thus gives the States a choice: they can have either the badly needed federal funds or their sovereign authority to set state tax policy,\u201d the lawsuit said. \u201cBut they cannot have both. In our current economic crisis, that is no choice at all. In our current economic crisis, that is no choice at all. It is a metaphorical \u2018gun to the head.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday a vaccine lottery system that will distribute a whopping $1 million each to lucky winners.Adults who have received at least their first dose &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277993,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1058491048-scaled-e1620858990268.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ohio Opens Vaccine Lottery, 5 Residents To Win $1 Million Each","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1058491048-scaled-e1620858990268.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ohio Opens Vaccine Lottery, 5 Residents To Win $1 Million Each","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}