By Todd Northrop
One of the most hotly-anticipated lottery drawings of all time never happened Monday night, as lottery officials were scrambling to process the massive amount of ticket sales data generated by the record $1.9 billion jackpot.
Officials now estimate that the drawing should kick off sometime Tuesday morning. A specific time has not been set.
The delay was initially caused by one participating lottery that needed extra time to complete required security protocols, the California Lottery said.
Later, the Multi-State Lottery Association released a statement explaining that one participating lottery needed more time to process its sales and play data.
The organization explained that all 48 participating lotteries are required to submit their sales and plays before the winning numbers can be selected.
"Powerball has stringent security requirements to protect the integrity of the game and remains committed to holding a drawing that gives all players a fair chance to win," the statement said.
"Due to the length of the draw delay, it is likely that we will not know the official results of the Powerball drawing until Tuesday morning," it continued.
People across the United States have been scooping up lottery tickets at a frantic pace ever since nobody won Saturday night's $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot.
There have now been 40 drawings since Aug. 6 without a top prize winner, generating a jackpot larger than any other seen in world history.
If nobody wins the current $1.9 billion Powerball jackpot, the next jackpot will be $2.3 billion, according to the Texas Lottery.
Players will be able to find the winning numbers at both USA Mega, as well as on Lottery Post, on the players' state lottery results page.
The winning numbers will be published immediately after the delayed drawing takes place.
THE LOTTERY IS ALWAYS RIGGED ( They Select The Winning Combination) WHETHER THEY USE A Lottery Draw Machine OR COMPUTERIZED LOTTERY DRAWINGS.
The Lottery Needed More Time To Pick The Winning Combination.
victims of thar respective greed ..... well good luck and shame on them
Read the article again.
For some unknown reason the suspect state has not been mentioned...could be one of the territory's (PR & VI) but think not.
Sweet, now I can buy more tickets lol
Where are the Powerball numbers, it's Tuesday morning????
Not drawn yet. After this election stuff, GMA will have a story on it.
Hold onto your tickets!
This sounds sus.
Valid point. Got a knot in my stomach at the possible shenanigans being perpetrated by the unnamed lottery participant/state/territory . Wonder how many "test" drawings they will perform?
But isn't there usually a slight adjustment to the final jp total when it is unusually large? After the numbers are drawn.
I bet it is a very large state that delayed the drawing..
I give up
a state cldn't stand losing
NY, or NJ
what if nobody won?
Lol, and they say is not rigged . They are working on which combinations to drop. Do you think they will hand a billion dollars to some peasant, I don't think so.
powerball seems to pull this stunt about delaying drawings
Sounds to me like California is the state that may have had technical problems and could not process security protocols.
As a retired data processing professional (I worked for IBM for 32 years in an IT department located inside of one of IBM's largest datacenters containing every type/kind of computer hardware that had software executing on them from PC's to mainframes) I'm NOT surprised that a computer could be overwhelmed and crash due the volume of data to be processed. Add to that that we neither know the age of nor the stability of both the hardware and software running on any machine that may have failed. Nothing says that the computers any states lottery has in running their datacenter is state of the art. It's very common for up and running hardware/software to be old and way out of date and long overdue for replacement. Should they replace it? Of course they should! But then the dollars budgeted to do that may not even exist.
Add to that, if it actually is California that has the problem, California is the most populated state in The United States and sells more lottery tickets than any other state in a "normal" drawing. G5
What time is the drawing?
I guess the realized they drew my numbers -- and said OOPS--no way! Good luck to all!
so can you buy more tickets for todays drawing or will the ticket be for wednesday night lol.
The winner lives in a poor rural area, votes democratic so the powers that be doesn't them to have their winnings....ergo mulligan
Well Cali said "it wasn't them"
d-NYers n Floridians
we'll get it next time y'all
They should have stayed up all night to fix it if necessary. Looks like they went back to bed and will start on it after they've had their coffee this morning. It's 8 am on the east coast, and still no draw.
Smells like the 2020 election to me.
Caps
I demand a full investigation, hand counts, paper analysis etc,etc......
LOL
caps
It's wednesdays. I already checked This whole debacle is suspicious as hell
Did u notice there was no adjustment? I think that's odd. Very easily should have gone over 2bn by Monday morn
I must have had the winning combination, that's why they pulled this oakie doke on us.!!
I thought it suspicious that the winners were in contested 2020 states and now I'm wondering about this one. Wondering if they're holding off until election results come in. Would make a good book - payoffs through lottery to states that help rig elections. Kind of crazy but now I'm kind of wondering about it
Screw this! Whichever state it is should be kicked out of the Powerball permanently!
https://youtu.be/yVDP5M0eTcM
There really were no numbers last night?
I hope it's Idaho. They deserved to be kicked out for requiring the powerplay purchase on every ticket.
2 billion dollars. It's ridiculous. I wish they would rig it. Get it over with.
Power Ball & Mega Game is a sucker game, HQ for power is California, all of the states money go there,
what does the count have to do with the powerball machine dropping the balls?
If their state lottery can't afford acceptable equipment then whichever state it is has no business running a lottery. I hope the state lottery commissioner that is responsible for this fiasco is fired post haste!!!!!
Can the MUSL void the guilty states entries and hold the drawing for the rest of the states who did nothing wrong? Let whichever states players sue their state lottery commission for any money they would have won from any voided tickets!!!!
Where are the PB rules on this one?
Well if no winner, they better be prepared for tomorrow
but doubt if there will be a rollover
everybody back to work
who quitting as soon as they announce the number?
I don't think Powerball is "rigged", I highly suspect someone is trying to cheat by manipulating the protocol. Most likely in Virgin Islands or some other small municipality.
Powerball prevented the fraud and kept the integrity of yesterday's drawing by delaying it until today.
Exactly! I was keeping an eye to see if and when the jackpot would get a bump but never materialized, this entire scenario stinks to high heaven😠
I guess when all this is over .. I'm going to need a cigarette 🚬
Could very well be. Puerto Rico is about as corrupt as they come. I had thought perhaps it was California causing the delay but others who chimed in said the CA lottery officials denied it was them.
It will take at least a month for the funds to be collected from every state/territory so the winner better make arrangements on getting a temporary loan to tie them over until the funds get wired if they decide to quit immediately and leave town.
www.kcra.com out of Sacramento has the best story on why the delay occured. It's lottery policy to not name the guilty party that caused the delay.
I highly suspect U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico is the guilty party. We shall see which Banana Republic is at fault!
I bet the drawing won't happen until 12 noon EST
Have to agree with you on that.
The reality is that many organizations (both public and private) have outdated/antiquated data processing equipment inside their datacenter walls. That's very common.
And with governmental agencies that have and run "old iron" there's no way the public can ever know they do it. First of all, the public can't even see the hardware, and even if they could, there's know way of telling how old that "box" is, or the state of the software running on it.
Think of jet airliners. You see that Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 taxing in, but just how old is it, and how many miles has it flown? You assume it's new, but the fact of the matter is that it could be 15 years old. There's no way of knowing. Same thing with computers. The people that support the computer and are employed by the company know how old it is and what, if any, problems it may be experiencing but nobody else does. G5
Well atleast now I am assured that I didn't lose 😂
Now would be a great time to slip in and win the Mega Millions, very little attention
$2.04B and $997M cash option are final numbers!
The numbers are out! Check your tix!
https://www.usamega.com/