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Another day another mistake for the Tennessee Lottery
Another day another mistake for the Tennessee LotteryPosted: 9/17/2007 9:42:14 PM  Can it be possible? It appears that once again the Tennessee Lottery has made a mistake so glaring it requires them to pay out two sets of midday numbers. The lottery spokepeople must be getting tired of the mistakes too, because they didn't even attempt an explanation this time. A terse statement on the Tennessee Lottery web site Monday evening reads as follows: "The official midday Cash 3 and Cash 4 numbers for Sept. 17, 2007 are 133 for Cash 3 and 6121 for Cash 4. Players can claim prizes at any retailer location. The TEL will also pay players who played the following numbers for the Sept. 17 midday draw: 216 for Cash 3 and and 0573 for Cash 4. Players must mail these tickets to the TEL, P.O. Box 280360, Nashville, TN 37228-0360. Please provide a return address and/or claim form. Thank you." The unprecedented mistakes made in the last month by the Tennessee Lottery started when they suddenly changed over to computerized drawings, blocking lottery players from seeing how the numbers are drawn. Computerized drawings use a computer program to pick the winning numbers, rather than the traditional lottery balls drawn from a tumbler one at a time. Some lottery players learned of the switch to computerized drawings when the lottery issued a statement on its web site a couple weeks before the changeover. Other players may have learned about the switch when the drawings ceased to be televised. And many learned of the changeover when stories started appearing in local media about flawed drawings generated by a computer, in which a high percentage of the tickets sold had absolutely no chance of winning. Tennessee Senator Kyle Friday wrote letters to the state House and Senate Speakers, asking to urgently convene the Tennessee Lottery oversight committee. When Lottery Post contacted Senator Kyle's office this morning, Mike Krause, Policy Advisor for Senator Kyle, said that he expected a meeting to be arranged soon, but the date is not yet set. The meeting date will be coordinated with the members of committee, who will be coming to Nashville from around the state. Senator Kyle is asking lottery players who wish to voice their concerns about the Tennessee Lottery to call his office at (615) 741-4167. Source: Lottery Post Staff
Coastal Georgia United States Member #2703 October 30, 2003 1867 Posts Offline |
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nashville United States Member #50355 February 18, 2007 907 Posts Offline |
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this states nightmare has to end soon
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Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 887 Posts Offline |
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Lets have a guessing game about what goes wrong next.
Gonna win. 
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Indiana United States Member #49185 January 7, 2007 887 Posts Offline |
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Ok, I think I got something. The auditor for the TN lottery gets in a big traffic jam/minor car accident that delays his/her arrival. Not only that, the computers for the evening drawings aren't booting properly/the lottery software keeps crashing. It's getting close to the deadline, so the TN lottery employees decide to do a ball drawing instead for that night. So they go into the closet an pull out the good ol' ball machines.
The auditor finally arrives after the drawing has taken place, and decides to do a post investigation of the ball drawing machine, only to find out that there are 3 balls missing from the machine because nobody counted the balls! As a result, the next day, when the computers are up and running, the TN lottery performs a secondary drawing for the previous night and posts on their website: "In addition to the official results last night's Lotto 5 evening drawing, we will also honor tickets with the following numbers: 7 13 19 28 33. These winning tickets will need to be claimed by mail". I don't know if that's any good, but I gave it a shot. I tried to use my imagination. Gonna win.
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Stroudsburg, PA United States Member #1860 July 11, 2003 2506 Posts Offline |
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Ok, I think I got something. The auditor for the TN lottery gets in a big traffic jam/minor car accident that delays his/her arrival. Not only that, the computers for the evening drawings aren't booting properly/the lottery software keeps crashing. It's getting close to the deadline, so the TN lottery employees decide to do a ball drawing instead for that night. So they go into the closet an pull out the good ol' ball machines.
The auditor finally arrives after the drawing has taken place, and decides to do a post investigation of the ball drawing machine, only to find out that there are 3 balls missing from the machine because nobody counted the balls! As a result, the next day, when the computers are up and running, the TN lottery performs a secondary drawing for the previous night and posts on their website: "In addition to the official results last night's Lotto 5 evening drawing, we will also honor tickets with the following numbers: 7 13 19 28 33. These winning tickets will need to be claimed by mail". I don't know if that's any good, but I gave it a shot. I tried to use my imagination. They'd have to be in a mighty big rush to miss something like missing balls. You only need one ticket to win. But you'll win more with one hundred.
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S.C. United States Member #35432 March 11, 2006 839 Posts Offline |
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United States Member #32929 February 12, 2006 72 Posts Offline |
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i like to think my lotto not that incompetent , to not notice missing balls but am starting to have my doubts so to speak
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Roslindale, MA United States Member #5472 July 1, 2004 110 Posts Offline |
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According to The Tennessean, someone at the lottery sent out results of one of the test draws out as the acual draw results by mistake: (story link)
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Indiana United States Member #29567 December 29, 2005 280 Posts Offline |
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Just think...if they had televised Ball Drawings this mistake wouldn't have happened. I wonder if the Tennessee Education Lottery will spend some of the money they raise on computer classes for their employees? Jim
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. - Groucho Marx
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