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Are Lotteries RiggedReply
I agree on your points about the closed set (lack of public access) and computerized drawings. I think both practices should be banned because of possiblility of fraud.I don't know why you're surprised that the lottery knows all the numbers being played, and where the tickets were sold. I should hope they know all that - if they didn't we'd all be in trouble.It is also a common practice in states with fixed payouts (as opposed to pari-mutuel) that they will limit the number of tickets that c
Dec 11, 2003, 7:42 am - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

FBI missed rigged jackpot in 2006 before lottery scheme grewNews Story
Investigators were suspicious in 2006 when they heard that a rural Texas judge was trying to exchange $450,000 in consecutively marked bills. But Tommy Tipton, a Fayette County magistrate, told the FBI that his actions were innocent, if odd: He won the Colorado lottery but couldn't tell his wife because gambling was against their Christian faith. The FBI accepted the story and dropped its inquiry of Tipton, who soon bought a new truck and more property around the town of Flatonia, 110 miles (
Jun 19, 2017, 8:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

Iowa Supreme Court hears lottery rigging caseNews Story
The Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether purely circumstantial evidence was enough to convict a former lottery employee of rigging Iowa's Hot Lotto game to win a $16.5 million jackpot. Eddie Tipton was convicted of tampering with Iowa's Hot Lotto game and attempting to cash a ticket in early 2015, but an appeals court reversed his conviction on the charge of attempting to redeem the lottery ticket, finding it was barred by the three-year statute of limitations. The Iowa Sup
Feb 14, 2017, 4:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Prosecutors say 2 more men may be linked to lottery riggingsNews Story
Prosecutors in the case of a former lottery insider convicted last year in a national Hot Lotto jackpot-rigging scandal are seeking to subpoena records from two attorneys they believe could be tied to the plot. Documents filed on Tuesday by the lead prosecutor in the case, Assistant Iowa Attorney General Rob Sand, seek to subpoena records from Texas attorneys J. Thad Whisenant and Luis Vallejo. Authorities assert that immediately after investigators attempted to interview Whisenant about t
Aug 24, 2016, 6:21 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Hoosier Lotto in a dry spellNews Story
Players suspicious of computerized drawings 1 Year. 102 Drawings. 0 Jackpots. Players grumble as Indiana lottery players join Tennessee's in their shared disdain for the computerized drawing system. Steven Haddix didn't cross his fingers or grasp a lucky rabbit's foot after buying tickets Tuesday for tonight's Hoosier Lotto drawing. Instead, the Indianapolis resident expressed mistrust of the Lotto system, which has gone nearly a year without a jackpot payout. I'm a little leery of
Oct 17, 2007, 7:34 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery CEO blames lagging sales on PowerballReply
Think about it. Keno drawn every 5 minutes with ball machines is logistically and physically impossible. Drawing 5,000 6-digit raffle numbers with a ball machine is logistically and physically impossible. I would not suggest what I said about 10 digits without reason. I never said computers should be banned entirely. They have their purposes. But one of them is not lotto-style games. There are basically three types of people who like computerized drawings: The companies that cr
Nov 21, 2008, 1:16 pm - Todd - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
I have a bit of sympathy about that response that players were getting from the lottery, mainly because the lotteries all get accused by angry gamblers daily of being rigged. So the handful of messages they might have received as a result of this drawing error were likely dwarfed by the daily onslaught of similar messages that do not have a shred of proof. You really can't expect a customer service rep to sort all that out, and the result is a canned response, because most of the time what they
Apr 22, 2026, 6:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News

NJ Lottery announces new evening draw times and other changesReply
What this press release spin doesn't say about the changes to Jersey Cash 5 is that increasing the numbers selection from 43 to 45 numbers will greatly increase the odds of hitting the top jackpot - making it harder for players to win big. Currently the odds of hitting the top progressive jackpot is about one in 1 million, according to the NJ Lottery. So now with more numbers to chose from it will increase the odds significantly, making the chances of scoring the top jackpot more difficult.
Jun 22, 2020, 10:43 pm - jplayer33 - Lottery News

Canada's Lotto Max jackpot sets game recordReply
From: https://www.lotterypost.com/lottomax Game Type: 7/50 Drawing Days: Tue, Fri Drawing Time: 10:30 PM Eastern Time (GMT-5:00) Draw Method: Computer Random Number Generator Participating Provinces: Atlantic Canada British Columbia Ontario Qu bec Western Canada Notes: Lotto Max changed from traditional ball drawings to computerized drawings and added one more number to the game matrix (changing it from 7/49 to 7/50) starting with the drawing on May 14, 2019. That was also the
Jan 6, 2020, 3:26 pm - JADELottery - Lottery News

Illinois Lottery mulling changes to drawingsReply
No live drawings and computer generated winning numbers seem to take out some of the excitement of the game. Come to think of it, have not seen a live drawing of the N.J. lottery in a long while.Doubt that has hurt the lottery sales as the jackpots grow aggressively from drawing to drawing. The N.J. Pick 5 Game from last night (4/15/14) paid out $71,631. The jackpot started out at $50K and grew over $21k by the time of the drawings, later in the evening. Illinois' decision to change the
Apr 16, 2014, 10:18 am - Gleno - Lottery News