Ontario Lottery glitch infuriates customers, prevents sales

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DoubleDown — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:33:09 GMT

All of us Ontario lottery players are disappointed as well.

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justxploring — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:19:31 GMT

Yes, Just6, it's a real shame.

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Just6ntlc — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:31:46 GMT

I'm disappointed that sales began to fall because of glitch.

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rdc137 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:54:34 GMT

I remember when Delaware converted to their new machines they had a simliar issue. The Powerball jackpot was huge and Pennsylvania did a lot of business for about 2 days.

Ontario Lottery glitch infuriates customers, prevents sales

Lottery Post — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:33:04 GMT

Would-be millionaires were angered Wednesday when they were prevented from buying lottery tickets due to a glitch that affected thousands of lottery terminals.

Lottery officials said a piece of equipment at their data centre in Toronto malfunctioned.

The broken piece of equipment has affected nearly 2,000 lottery terminals across the province, which is equivalent to roughly 20 per cent of their machines.

Many of the affected terminals are located in the GTA and eastern Ontario.

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