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POLL 1 of 3: Computerized drawings vs. ball drawings

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Do you prefer computerized drawings or mechanical ball machine drawings?

Computerized drawings [ 17 ]  [7.26%]
Mechanical ball machine drawings [ 217 ]  [92.74%]
Total Valid Votes [ 234 ]  
Discarded Votes [ 2 ]  
psykomo
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Posted: October 10, 2007, 4:28 pm - IP Logged Bottom

IMHO if a state wants to run a lottery that is fair & random, it should have the balls to do it!

Smiley

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recall the BALL's

no more "RNG">>>

people gett'ng "SICK"

(RNG's not healthy )

  recall the "BALL's"

(putt'um back where they BELONG)

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Posted: October 10, 2007, 7:46 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

I know there have been many polls like this before, but let's do a fresh poll, to find out what the current feelings of lottery players are.  I'd appreciate as much participation as possible, no matter what your viewpoint is.

Please indicate your preference as to what type of lottery drawings your prefer —

  • Computerized drawings, which use a computer system to generate random numbers.  Some computerized states show the results in an animated cartoon sequence, and other computerized states have dropped television productions.
  • Mechanical ball drawings, which use a bin or tub to mix numbered ping pong balls or hard rubber balls, and from which the winning numbers are drawn.  Most ball drawings are broadcast on television live or taped and shown later.

Enter one choice or the other, even if you are swayed ever so slightly one way or the other.

You may enter a comment as well, but it is optional.

Also, please participate in the other two polls posted.

POLL 1 of 3: Computerized drawings vs. ball drawings
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POLL 2 of 3: Switching to computerized drawings
http://www.lotterypost.com/thread/161744

POLL 3 of 3: Switching to mechanical ball drawings
http://www.lotterypost.com/thread/161743

Ball drawings, i prefer&
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Posted: November 13, 2007, 1:06 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

I moved from Texas to Louisiana two years ago.  Texas uses balls.  LA is computerized.  None of the systems I used in Texas work in LA.  Wins here are few and far between.  None of  the systems I used in Texas work here - they don't even come close.  I play much less.

Did the system you were using for Tx work pretty good.  If so would you share them with me.

 

Thanks

 

Doc Tor
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Posted: November 29, 2007, 6:56 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

you can fight fire with fire fight computerized drawing with you computer your winnings will be better than you think do not use your system with  ball drop
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Posted: November 29, 2007, 11:38 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

Balls good, Computer Bad. Me hate to lose.

Hey boys and girls, they like the computers so we can't even get close to picking the correct numbers. Plus they don't have to maintain the pp-ball machines. Also, they can control the pay-outs, the odds, the works. I have seen the Great Oz and he's a bad man!

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Posted: December 2, 2007, 2:11 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

Interesting poll Todd,

As much as I love the balls I cannot see anything wrong with computerized drawing as long as the system truly is a random system. I have been browsing around a bunch lately and have seen some pretty wacked out ideas for drawing numbers which include stock markets and currecny exchange which just seems bizzare to me, if anyone knows more about this please enlighten me.

Drawing balls I feel will always have a (dare I say it) romantic appeal to it that can simply not be achieved by any PC or Mac screen.

I think both have their own merrits and it could be argued either way to the bitter end but for now I will lean slightly towards balls
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Posted: December 3, 2007, 7:27 pm - IP Logged Bottom Top

i don't know about the ball droppings,but i hope tri states isn't abusing lottery employees bonuses like in georgia.this time of year,very little in lottery winnings because they give out bonuses i'm afraid.how do we get our state lotteries to check on this,to make sure they aren't robbing us players?
 
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