Two CT Lottery employees on paid leave during probe of botched drawing

Comment #9

Todd — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:58:09 GMT

Anderson is correct, it is 100,000. You're confusing the number of tickets left out with the starting ticket number. The final ticket number sold was 314601, but they entered 214601 as the final number. So 100,000 tickets were not eligible.

Comment #8

KY Floyd — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:56:49 GMT

They started at 100,001, not 100,000 - so they left out 100,001 tickets, not 100,000.

Or maybe they just went ahead and counted ticket number 100,001 as the first ticket.

Comment #7

TheMeatman2005 — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 14:03:48 GMT

Here's how the mistake occurred, according to Anderson:

All told, 214,601 tickets were sold in the game at $10 each, and they all had consecutive six-digit numbers, the lowest being 100001. The lottery official should have increased the range by 214,601 above that low ticket number of 100001 to 314601, the highest ticket number sold. But instead, the employee mistakenly entered 214601, the number of tickets sold, as the top eligible ticket number for the drawing leaving out 100,000 tickets. A... [ More ]

Comment #6

grwurston — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:39:56 GMT

noise-gate and I once had a discussion about pre-tests. We likened them to someone going to bed at night and then waking up every half hour to go outside and start their car in order make sure the car would start when they left for work in the morning. Well, sooner or later they will go to leave for work one day and the battery will be dead due to all the extra wear and tear.

Connecticut did several pre-tests. (They called it practice runs ...) Then they left for work.

And the battery died... [ More ]

Comment #5

justguessin — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:07:49 GMT

Unfair balance to this game.They choose to ignore the fact that holding another drawing this way to fix this bloched drawing 1st It excludes pp that thew out their tickets 2 clearly doesn't have the overall odds that this game started off by having, 3 Is not on the time and day that started off as.This is a whole new game so it could have new rules and ajustments.I can't see how this was overlooked it was so obvious just by looking at the results.Very disappointed that this group of professional... [ More ]

Comment #4

ecnirP — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:56:25 GMT

Well, wasn't that the purpose of the practice runs?

This is inexcusable.

Comment #3

noise-gate — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:01:29 GMT

They still getting paid while being probed ? How about those players who lost out, by throwing away their tickets because the machine said sorry, not a winner? That's no different from a father saying my only darling daughter is pregnant due to human error. Excuses, excuses.

Comment #2

Raven62 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:52:15 GMT

One would think that when a Keying Error could cost you your Job that you would be more careful.

Comment #1

music* — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 21:38:24 GMT

Human error with computers has cost the lives in military operations.

California Lottery employees go through a Department of Justice background check. How about in Connecticut

Two CT Lottery employees on paid leave during probe of botched drawing

Lottery Post — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:22:10 GMT

The Connecticut Lottery Corp. said Wednesday that it has placed two employees on paid administrative leave while it investigates a human error that shut 100,000 eligible tickets out of Monday's drawing in the New Year's $1,000,000 Super Draw game, forcing a second drawing yet to be scheduled.

(See Connecticut Lottery forced to redraw special New Year's raffle after 'human error', Lottery Post, Jan. 2, 2018.)

Investigations are being conducted by both the CT Lottery and the [state] Departm... [ More ]