(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Lottery’s Chief Revenue Officer says the organization’s drop in sales in the first two months of the fiscal year is a trend the lottery industry is facing nationwide. Jon Roth says scratch ticket sales nationwide are down three-point-two percent so far this year. “Scratch tickets are the mainstay of lottery industry. They represent anywhere from 60 to 67 percent of sales for the lottery industry. So it’s important. So when those numbers are down, that’s an indicator overall the industry is still facing challenges,” Roth says. Roth says sales of lotto games nationwide in the past 52 weeks are down more than 17 percent.