More Texas Lottery trouble:" Auditor's warning erased from report

Comment #10

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:23:10 GMT

Comment #9

Maverick — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:14:50 GMT

Again, I wish they'd stop recording our number combinations, and find another way to figure out rollovers. But they make money either way, so ehh.

Comment #8

Just6ntlc — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:55:04 GMT

I think Texas should abandon the bonus ball and go back to a 6/54 game. Washington experimented playing the bonus gold ball for 150 draws [over 1 year] and it flopped except for the $47 million jackpot winner.

Comment #7

Rip Snorter — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:51:06 GMT

Paranoia is an unjustified suspicion that things aren't running according to Hoyle. Key word is 'unjustified'.Sounds as though the people of Texas would have to be fairly gullible to have any confidence on the issue.Jack

Comment #6

Maverick — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:46:35 GMT

Now you see all this hoopla? I aint saying it's rigged, but this issue doesn't help people's confidence/paranoia.

Comment #5

Rip Snorter — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:12:51 GMT

(I have to re-read Canticle every now and again, myself)Sounds as though what's happening is fairly SOP. Public's interested in the Lottery agency.... hungry reporters get on the case looking for scorpions under rocks... one of them finds a disgruntled employee, who leaks the draft audit report..... headlines.In fact, we know there's a guy was fired from the chief financial officer position.... just the man to have a copy of the draft audit report, off out there somewhere seeing all the smoke a... [ More ]

Comment #4

johnph77 — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:35:09 GMT

The flap over the security forces has absolutely nothing to do with the inflated jackpot fiasco. Smoke screen, maybe

Comment #3

CASH Only — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:01:26 GMT

Hire Dawn Nettles.

Comment #2

Rip Snorter — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:41:55 GMT

If they had a Security Division it might be worthwhile to investigate whether anyone in that outside auditing firm had any jackpot wins sometime after the final audit report came out.Might be the head man over there used to keep a high-dollar scratcher in his desk drawer as sort of a good luck charm.Jack

Comment #1

LANTERN — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:03:36 GMT

It seems to me that the only sure way to get rid of all the bull is to fire all of them and put brand new people there.Maybe honest people for a change, if they can find any like that anywhere, they might have to look under rocks to see if there are any like that at all there.Good luck, they will need it.Get rid of all the rotten ones (all of them probably).And if you really want to sell more tickets then give us a 6/49 no bonus ball Texas Lotto and a pick 4 game.

More Texas Lottery trouble:" Auditor's warning erased from report

Lottery Post — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:33:00 GMT

Texas Lottery executives were warned in a draft audit last winter that their decision to gut the agency's security force and fire most of its officers threatened the lottery's security and integrity, but lottery officials never disclosed those findings publicly.A copy of the December draft obtained by the Houston Chronicle said that a reorganization ordered by lottery executives actually heightened the lottery's vulnerability to ticket theft, ticket counterfeiting and undetected fraud.But those... [ More ]