Tenn. lawmakers want to force lottery to drop computer draws

Are the live drawings programing, commercials, or both?

I think they are both and might even profit the lottery because when people change channels to watch the drawings, they will see the commercials at end of the previous show and will see the commercials before the next show while they are checking their tickets. Jeopardy is on after the drawing on the TV station I watch and the station will scroll the numbers on the bottom of the screen after the first commercial break while the contestants are being interviewed for the people that might have missed the drawing.

There probably is an extra cost to the lottery for buying and maintaining equipment and that should be examined if a state lottery always used computer drawings. But since Tennessee had problems and player distrust after they switch to RNG drawings, the extra cost would be well worth it.

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This is just gibberish to me...might as well be talking in martian.

I don't know about other places, but in Michigan when they had the ball drawings, they did them between the 7 and 7:30 shows (Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy) and Jeopardy started up right after the drawing, so no time for commercials. Besides, the commercials would be for the benefit of the stations, not the lottery. The lottery has to pay for that minute or so of airtime because it's time that would otherwise be set aside for commercials. I still don't see how it would cost $5 million to have a little 30 second - 1 minute drawing. There has to be a way to cheaply produce something like that. You shouldn't really even need a host, so to speak. Just show the numbers being drawn and have a voice stating what they are. Voices are a lot cheaper than regular hosts. Heck, maybe somebody from the lottery office could provide the voice as part of his or her job without the lottery having to pay a dime more. Just a thought.

Tennessee was putting out big bucks for live drawings because they had several TV stations televising the drawings at the same time. I think it was like 5 stations. No wonder the bill was high.

I still say Tennessee lottery only needs one station to host the drawing and the others can show the results on their screens in a little box like other state lottery's do.

does new hampshire have computerized drawing.i sent a email to the lottery commissinor  she said they were not and also they would stay with 2 draws a day on the pick 4 and 3 which really thows off the odds

Under "Results" ...... top menu bar ....... go to "State Lottery Report Card" for a rundown of evey lottery.

I totally agree! People who want to watch "Deal or No Deal" know where to find it! The same would be for the lottery drawings.  I do not like Bredesen's response to the legislature's intervention in the computerized drawings, from the first coverage of Bredesen introducing Hargrove and defending her outrageous salary!! The 5 million dollar figure is bogus propaganda to try and keep it her way.  The software is crap! That was proven from the beginning when it was so quickly compromised!  I suspect Hargrove had her palm greased for securing that contract!

I dont think the lotteries are anywhere near stupid enough to deliberately risk anything that keeps drawings from being random, but the idea of reverse engineering the code brings up an important point. Any code used for lottery drawings, voting, or anything else that requires transparency and public trust should be readily available to anyone who wants to examine it.

Any code used for lottery drawings, voting, or anything else that requires transparency and public trust should be readily available to anyone who wants to examine it.

Exactly,so when can we be invited to see how this thing works everyday?