I hope everyone gets a chance to see that video, because it is a great example of how the Tennessee Lottery cannot, in any shape or fashion, show you the actual drawing as it takes place.  All the stuff in that video is a smoke screen, designed to draw your attention to other areas in which they feel they have a firm footing.

It's really wonderful that they have 12 billion video cameras, but can one of them actually capture the method used to select the winning numbers?  Of course not!  It happens inside a computer!

The lottery crows about the fact that each drawing supposedly takes one and a half hours to conduct, and how they use reams of paper to document the drawings.

How is that a good thing?  I thought the whole point was that computers make the process better and more efficient. 

Instead of a nimble, efficient drawing process, they seem to have created a laborious, wasteful, and inefficient slog, in which two employees are dedicated to ticking off dozens of pages of checklists several times a day, and adding nothing of value to the process. 

With all those checklists and pre-draw activities, how did they overlook a colossal error like no doubles and triples being drawn for more than three weeks?

And what happened to the drawings being "exciting", as stated in their first press release?

As I watched the video, I visibly cringed every time the announcer claimed with complete certainty that there was no way for the computer system to be penetrated.  Are they for real?  Don't they know that computers can be hacked?

Every security expert who is worth their salt knows that there is no 100% effective security method.  There are only degrees of safety.  The object is to create the least possible risk. 

Stating that there is no risk is just plain wrong, and highly misleading.  It is a disservice to every citizen of Tennessee.  If the announcer was a security expert he would be laughed out of the b....

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