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TENNESSEE LOTTERY MAY BE FORCED BACK TO REAL DRAWINGSNews Story
Updated Oct. 9, 2007, 12:58 am Lawmaker eyes legislation to get rid of computer draws 'The integrity of our lottery drawings has been compromised in the minds of lottery players.' One Tennessee state legislator could step into the latest Tennessee Lottery controversy, and solve it with one stroke of the pen. House Minority Leader Jason Mumpower is looking to introduce legislation that would rid the lottery of computerized drawings. He wants the drawings back to how they were, befo
Oct 9, 2007, 12:49 am - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery CEO claims recent errors didn't hurt salesNews Story
Lottery sponsor questions move to computerized drawings Three recent mistakes made by the Tennessee Lottery have not hurt ticket sales, the lottery's president and CEO said, but the legislator who led the effort to create the lottery questions the lottery's move to computerized drawings. At this point, sales in our products are up, so it hasn't had any impact that we can measure at all, Rebecca Hargrove said Wednesday. We're almost 4 years old, and we've had three incidences, which if t
Oct 7, 2007, 9:26 am - Lottery News

Lottery competition between two border statesNews Story
A close look at the Georgia and Tennessee Lotteries University of Georgia demographer exemplifies general lack of understanding; buys into lottery myth: There aren't people in Brooks Brothers suits holding briefcases standing in line for tickets. Bob Kilgore lives in Jasper, Tenn., but he regularly buys lottery tickets in neighboring Georgia. I started playing the lottery in Georgia when it started (in 1993), and I've just kept buying most of my tickets in Georgia, Mr. Kilgore sai
Oct 5, 2007, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery: confusion not being cleared upNews Story
Lottery CEO not making audit intentions clear The Tennessee Lottery is investigating a handful of glitches since changing the system for pulling winning numbers to a computer, but then again, are they really? That's a question that nobody outside the lottery seems to know the answer to for sure. State Senator Bill Ketron, the co-chair of the Lottery Oversight Committee, is calling for a complete audit of lottery procedures. We want to go back and look at all the processes up till w
Oct 4, 2007, 6:30 pm - Lottery News

FLASH: Tennessee Lottery audit won't investigate drawing errorsNews Story
Out-of-control situation gets worse Legislators shocked to learn investigation won't study why errors occurred The Tennessee Lottery hired an outside auditor after a computer issue affected the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games in August, but the auditor will not examine why the system failed. Lottery officials previously said KPMG would be paid about $90,000 to look into the problem that kept repeat numbers from being drawn for those games for more than three weeks in August. But a letter ob
Oct 3, 2007, 12:02 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery to hold "Deal Or No Deal" eventNews Story
One of 26 grand prize finalists will walk away $100,000 richer on Friday as the Tennessee Lottery wraps up its initial version of the instant ticket game, Deal or No Deal. The event, which will be held at the Lottery's Nashville headquarters at 2 p.m., won't leave any of the finalists empty-handed. The Lottery is also awarding a briefcase and $250 to the remaining 25 players and an additional $2,400 prize to one of those 25 players (other than the grand prize winner). In addition to the
Sep 26, 2007, 10:08 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery oversight committee to convene in NovemberNews Story
By Todd Northrop Accounting firm to audit lottery and provide results to committee Following a disastrous couple of months for Tennessee Lottery, the legislature has decided to convene a meeting of the Oversight Committee and audit the lottery's operations. Senator Bill Ketron and Representative Ulysses Jones are co-chairs of the committee. According to a staffer in Senator Ketron's office, the committee has met several times in the past, mainly to discuss issues related to education
Sep 20, 2007, 11:22 am - Lottery News

Is the lottery shortchanging schools?News Story
According to the North American Assoc. of State and Provincial Lotteries, 42 states and the District of Columbia run lotteries, and more than half claim the games boost funding for education. But CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian found that lotteries aren't exactly providing a windfall for schools. If you listen to state lottery ads, we're supposed to believe that all the numbers are supposedly adding up to more and more money for education. Lotteries help, but n
Sep 19, 2007, 12:38 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee House Speaker backs lottery oversight meetingNews Story
By Todd Northrop Lottery Post feature: See the actual letter from Senator Kyle A meeting of the Tennessee Lottery Oversight Committee inched one step closer today, as Speaker of the House James Naifeh, D-Covington, indicated his support for the meeting, according to an advisor for Senator James Kyle, D-Memphis. Sen. Kyle sent letters Last Friday to the Speakers of the House and Senate, requesting a meeting of the oversight committee as soon as possible, after the Tennessee Lotteries
Sep 18, 2007, 10:36 pm - Lottery News

Another day another mistake for the Tennessee LotteryNews Story
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 clai
Sep 17, 2007, 9:42 pm - Lottery News