Like I said what goes around comes around.And I do hope she reads all of this that we all write.I would love to see her retire,she has not only my money but all of Tennessee people .We all across the united states work hard,not just us in Tennessee but every one.Do you think for a minute she cares if we have food to eat or gas in our cars or what we need for our families,,,,well   $%^*)  no she dont.I'm keeping my hard earned money,I dont know the way the rest of you work but most of the time I'm working 7 days a week,and it feels D%^*() M  good to have my money for me.......CHERYL

That is my personal opinion why the lottery sales have come down.  I'm sure the jackpots on Powerball have something to do with it as well., but mostly the gas prices, economy instability, etc.,  As far as confidence levels from the consumer, well, can you blame them?  The computerized drawings?  Remember, most people don't "trust" computers and the internet anyway.   Oh, let me clarify that, most people I know.  Not any of you here, of course.  But throw that in the mix with seemingly fixed draws and bloopers like with the triples, and there you have it!  No sales! 

I too, feel that if the gas prices stay down the economy will pick back up.  We have to suffer the last waves of the dominoe effect from the price hikes., then maybe we can get back to normal around this nation already.

Wow, another bad story from Tenn lotto. With errors like these people are loosing confidence in the lotto headquarter, not in themselves. Get real Tenn lotto if you want to make money you need to offer people a chance to win it, let the odds do the selection, not insiders. I have a feeling that this will happen few more times, at least once more before 2009. Investigation will take place eventually...those that walked away with great sums from this mess will soon be thinking about how not to drop the soap, rather than which super car to buy.

i meant to tell you guys this about pick 4.remember back a few years ago i was hitting the pick 4 three or four times a year?   since the middle of 2007 until now i've played on paper and guess how many times i've hit since they went to RNG here in tennessee?        0  times.  thats right not once.soooooo what i'm doing is keeping fingers crossed about arkansas and if those guys want to play fair and do ball draws i'll just take my business there.i honestly expected a small mistake by our lottery here every now and then but when i got up one morning and saw on here the headline in the news section about tennessee going to RNG i was hit with total shock.tennessee had one of the best lotteries in the nation before this idiot decided to she was going to RNG the lottery.and can you believe the reason was because she said the workers were complaining about setting the ball machines up every day,lol.they quoted that idiot rebecca paul saying that.if thats the case then those people should've been fired and replaced.heck i would've took the job myself and set 'em up.i'm counting on you arkansas.

p.s.... todd what do you think about me getting with the media in arkansas and showing these guys over there all the bad screwups tennessee has had by using computer draws.maybe spreading the word before hand could do some good.

The more people warning Arkansas about falling into the computerized drawing trap the better! 

They need to hear early and often about how players do not like and do not trust computerized drawings.

If they want to kick off their lottery without another group of people attacking them (i.e., like the anti-gambling folks), they need to ensure that only mechanical ball drawings will be used.

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Arkansas legislators:  When you write your lottery laws, please specify the following language:

The drawings for any online lottery ("lotto") games that consist of fewer than 10 chosen numbers per drawing will be conducted using a mechanical device in which both the selection of the drawing results and the means by which the numbers are selected can be directly and physically observed by a layman witness.

Shes right I would not  buy a ticket if it was a win for 0nly  a 100, million dollars

The Govt dont tax our lottery winnings in Canada,

The american Govt needs to let the American people keep more of thier money=GDP.

But they dont because that is what pays for Wars, Freedom,Superstructures, Superior technology,

Its Rebuilding the Nations, Notice I said Nations, 300 million people in united states,

so 1$=300 million thats if they all worked.

Given the unemployment rate this increases the cost per person.

A recession will alter the amount of money the average lotto player plays.

The Government needs to have a few  50 cent lotterys,

i totally agree with what all of you are saying. I do not trust the lottery here.

Prime example.....the last raffle ticket drawing that was held here only announced 2top prize winners and when i called the lottery office back in June to ask if the remaining 1mill top prizes were claimed, I was put on hold for 26mins!!! No one came back to the phone. I had to disconnect because I was on my lunch break at work.

I will admit that I play Lotto Plus every full moon but if its not hit by the end of this month then I'm gonna stop playin it also. The only game that I would faithfully play here is PB.

I don't even like the scratchers.....we have a $20 scratcher with a top prize of 350k but there is another scratcher with a top prize of 500k and its only $10.......where is the logic.

i am so ready for another lottery director.

If Paul-Hargrove is true to form she will likely be recruited by Arkansas to launch their lottery.  Maybe that's what she was planning for before the consequences of her own ill conceived decisions came back to haunt her.

She's not going anywhere, since she married a politician and Bredesen even performed the ceremony.  It's been oddly "hands off" the lottery since the legistlation was very quietly withdrawn to force them to go back to the balls.  The papers, websites, the City Paper, TV, no one has printed a thing.  How about this little tidbit...Paul-Hargrove very quietly just received a ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR BONUS for reaching $5B in sales before the lotterys five year anniversary.  How many scholarships is that?  And in this ecomony?  On top of her salary and very generous bonus plan?

One thing I would to know, how much Tennessee has made on 111 and 666 because never once played.Enough to send 10 kids to Vanderbuilt,