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Tenn. lawmakers trying to force lottery to switch back to real draws
Tennessee Lottery: Tenn. lawmakers trying to force lottery to switch back to real draws
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Bills filed in legislature; supported by Senate and House leadership The Tennessee state legislature may force the state lottery to return to using numbered balls to select winners for the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games. Legislative leaders have expressed concern about the lottery's switch to computerized drawings, especially after a computer glitch last year. Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, and Rep. Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol, the House's minority leader, have filed bills to require the lottery to use numbered balls, not computers, to draw winning numbers. House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, D-Covington, and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, back the effort. "If the balls dropping gives the people a better comfort level that it's being run right, then I think that's where we ought to go," Naifeh said last week. He's not convinced by the lottery's argument that it would cost $5.5 million to return to the pingpong ball drawings. "I don't understand that," Naifeh said. The lottery's random-number-generating computers malfunctioned last summer, rendering them incapable of drawing repeating digits as winners in the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games. The problem wasn't discovered for several weeks. Gov. Phil Bredesen told The Tennessean on Friday that he won't resist efforts by the legislature to return to numbered balls for lottery drawings, although he believes public confidence remains high in the computerized system.
Tennessean
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Clarksville United States Member #489 July 15, 2002 9130 Posts Offline |
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give us our balls back!! ...lottery balls that is... It takes Everyone's input to HIT the number..all are equally important.
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United States Member #55910 September 30, 2007 47 Posts Offline |
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Great to read this!! There's no way it would cost 5.5 million to go back to the ball drawings. As for the glitch, I believe they will find one now if they looked. Strange things with the pick 3 for a few months now!! Paul-Hargrove needs to go!!!
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nashville United States Member #50355 February 18, 2007 907 Posts Offline |
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bring back the ball drawings
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United States Member #5437 June 30, 2004 21795 Posts Offline |
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This is great news to read.... Not as good as reading that the vtrac result/search engine was ready here at the LP... but still great news indeed.
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Nashville, Tn United States Member #39102 May 3, 2006 300 Posts Offline |
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 yeaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!
 waiting patiently for my jackpot
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MD United States Member #1735 June 18, 2003 5770 Posts Offline |
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This is good news for Tennesseans everyone there should write, email or call their representatives. Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, and Rep. Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol, let them know you are for the ball drawings and against the computer generated drawings. If you stop pushing the issue then most likely they will have a difficult time bantering with Hargrove. Whats important here is governor Phil Bredesen know what he believes isn't quite accurate about the peoples/players confidence concerning the computerized system. Send him a message as well that the players want the computerized drawings done away with indefinitely. And restore the televised ball drawings. The general public might not care one way or the other it's the players who must make him realize that ball drawings are the players choice and that choice should have been up to the players not Hargrove or her staff.
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MD United States Member #1735 June 18, 2003 5770 Posts Offline |
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Petition
Petition to return to ball drawings. We the people of Tennessee would like very much that the Governor and elected officials of our state. Petition Rebecca Hargrove the lottery director of the state of Tennessee and it‘s staff. To re implement the ball drawings and do away with the computerized drawings for pick 3/4/5 games. Signed herein . . Name Address 1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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United States Member #9694 December 10, 2004 412 Posts Offline |
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Great to read this!! There's no way it would cost 5.5 million to go back to the ball drawings. As for the glitch, I believe they will find one now if they looked. Strange things with the pick 3 for a few months now!! Paul-Hargrove needs to go!!! I agree --- Paul-Hargrove needs to go ! ! !
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S.E.TN. United States Member #30197 January 7, 2006 27 Posts Offline |
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WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Good luck to all who play. IMGONNAWIN......SOON!!!
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North New Jersey United States Member #5812 July 18, 2004 11616 Posts Online |
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Who the Sam-Hill is Paul Hargrove???????  This is one Sweet ride clyde...!
So, what has "hope and change" done for you lately??
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United States Member #5437 June 30, 2004 21795 Posts Offline |
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Who the Sam-Hill is Paul Hargrove??????? The woman who took away our balls.
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United States Member #4963 May 30, 2004 2739 Posts Offline |
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The woman who took away our balls. Just U wait til dat woman hear's FROM: HILLARY (YOY HEAR>>>>>>) HILL is going to give us.....BALL's !!!! & Happy Day's & Nite's AGAIN...& AGAIN & AGAIN>>   LOL
PSYKOMO
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North New Jersey United States Member #5812 July 18, 2004 11616 Posts Online |
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The woman who took away our balls. I knew about Rebecca, but not Paul. Maybe she don't know which way to Swiiiiiiiiiiinnnnng....! This is one Sweet ride clyde...!
So, what has "hope and change" done for you lately??
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