Tenn. Lottery CEO breaks silence on drawing errors

Comment #15

DoubleDown — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:56:08 GMT

As a frustrated GA player , I agree 100% with Konane.

It's good to see you back- looong time no see !!!!!

Welcome back

Comment #14

konane — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:31:32 GMT

I'll pop in to say that I'm so happy Ms. Rebecca Paul-Hargrove left the Georgia Lottery before she completely ran it into the ground like she's doing the Tennessee Lottery.

With Georgia sales declining her only remedy was to tighten up games with higher matrices, more ballsets, terminate 6/46 Lotto Georgia, and launch the asinine computer generated Change Game aimed at vacuuming every last cent from a player's pocket. You could smell the greed wafting all over the Georgia Lottery, player... [ More ]

Comment #13

Badger — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:01:45 GMT

It is obvious to me that Ms Hargrove couldn't care less about the players and that she has no intention of switching back to ball drawings. Look at this statement:

We will continue to operate with an open door, and we will continue to be held accountable to our board of directors.

Note she didn't say to the players or the ciizens of the state. Just the board of directors. In plain English that means players be damned! They can come through the open door and complain but they will b... [ More ]

Comment #12

tnwinner — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:20:42 GMT

IT is time for you to leave our state Rebacca Hargrove get out sp we can have a decent lottery.You are paid way to much money anyway. get out and stay out.

Comment #11

JimmySand9 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:35:19 GMT

Yeah, sure they fixed that problem. Thank goodness it was easy to spot. But what if there are other problems? If there are, how the hell do they, or will they, know?!

That's what I mean by transparency, if something goes wrong with the program, and the results don't make it clearly obvious as this past fiasco did, the problem goes unresolved indefinately. There might still be flaw in the program, or for that matter any other state's program, that no one has spotted, or even can spot. It's ju... [ More ]

Comment #10

DoubleDown — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:13:03 GMT

I sincerely hope Ms Hargrove does some research ( on the Lottery Post ) and comes to the realization that the switch to RNG was ill-conceived and the players will indeed boycott it .

Comment #9

Stack47 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:26:41 GMT

When Tennessee voters called for the creation of a state lottery in November 2002, two things were on most people's minds: Millions in funding for new, specific programs to improve education, and a form of entertainment that would provide cash prizes and other economic benefits to the state.

The Ohio Lottery runs a weekly game show called Make me Famous, Make me Rich where players qualify for the show by sending in scratch-off entry tickets. There are 3 rounds of play and after each round th... [ More ]

Comment #8

tnlotto1 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:20:02 GMT

this explanation was crap she will continue to hear complaints and i hope other players continue to stop spending lottery money in this state.

Comment #7

Raven62 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:33:44 GMT

Tenn. Lottery CEO breaks silence on drawing errors with nothing but double talk.

Comment #6

jim695 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:11:11 GMT

You're right again, Uncle Jim.

Here's something else I noticed:

from the article:

Once the error was pinpointed, it was immediately corrected by the third-party vendor. The TEL quickly shared details with the media and offered special refunds and additional prizes to our players.

I can't help wondering, how many days must pass before something no longer qualifies as immediately? Is quickly just a relative term? Her selective use of adjectives certainly dresses up t... [ More ]

Comment #5

MADDOG10 — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:01:31 GMT

The Tennessee Lottery employs a variety of staff and outside industry experts whose sole purpose is to ensure the integrity of the games. In the case of the error in question, every drawing was being monitored for patterns that might be indicative of possible irregularities. Scrutiny and testing continued until an error was found. ________________________________________________________________________

Now everyone knows that is a crock of Cow Dung . If it was being monitored as they say

Comment #4

Uncle Jim — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:21:22 GMT

I think someone is feeling the heat. And rigthfully so.

I think if she has any regret it isn't because she made the decision to switch to an RNG and that decision costs the players a lot of money. But rather it is because after all her talk about security and integrity the system was indeed not secure and the process was totally lacking in integrity.

It is obvious to me that Ms Hargrove couldn't care less about the players and that she has no intention of switching back to ball drawing... [ More ]

Comment #3

takeitez — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:07:55 GMT

I wonder......has anyone told her that?

ez

Comment #2

Todd — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:46:52 GMT

She might have added -- when crowing about the money already given to the state for education -- that the $919 million was generated with TRUE LOTTERY DRAWINGS. Not the computerized nonsense they're now pushing.

If she feels true regret, let her show it by changing back to real drawings.

Comment #1

LOTTOMIKE — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:40:28 GMT

tennessee won't get any more of my dollars.i feel like 'maximizing' my wallet not the tennessee lottery.....

Tenn. Lottery CEO breaks silence on drawing errors

Lottery Post — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:00 GMT

Lottery is committed to accountability

By REBECCA HARGROVE (Tennessee Lottery President and CEO)

and DENNIS BOTTORFF (Chairman of the Board of Directors)

When Tennessee voters called for the creation of a state lottery in November 2002, two things were on most people's minds: Millions in funding for new, specific programs to improve education, and a form of entertainment that would provide cash prizes and other economic benefits to the state.

Nearly five years later, the Tennessee Educ... [ More ]