Tenn. Lottery CEO claims sales unhurt by numerous errors

Comment #6

tntea — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:23:30 GMT

BuLL

Comment #5

konane — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:32:08 GMT

Becca's in overdrive defending that itsy bitsy glitch which biased results in favor of the company she's running (in the ground) ..... and pays her bonu$$$$$$$.

Tell a lie long enough and it becomes the truth seems to be the strategy, but 'fessing up to making a mistake then immediately reverting to ball draws would have improved rather than harmed her image.

Now she looks like a table full of wind up teeth going at it like the battery bunny.

Comment #4

Todd — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:48:38 GMT

Exactly right.

For someone who claims to know so much about the lottery, Mrs. Hargrove has some very convenient moments when she seems to be ignorant of basic things like claiming prizes.

Comment #3

Stack47 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:13 GMT

The only time I was ever required to sign the back of a ticket and show ID was when I hit the Pick-4 straight and 5 out of 6 in the Lotto and that was because the payoff was over $600. If somebody actually knew which number was going to be drawn in advance, it wouldn't be very difficult cashing one or two $500 tickets at multiple stores without ever signing their name or showing ID. This type of investigation proves nothing.

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Comment #2

four4me — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:57:42 GMT

Hargrove said resuming manual drawings with numbered balls could cost more than $5 million per year, and would run contrary to the national trend toward computerization.

A small price to pay to improve player confidence. A huge investment in the face of the players whom would rather have ball drawings. A lot less ridicule for having switched from ball drawings to computer drawings. Restore faith in the players that real ball drawings have for ever been the standard way to draw the numbers.

Comment #1

tnlotto1 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:25:43 GMT

Lottery officials said they found no evidence of fraud. They checked the names of all people involved in designing or checking the new system against a winners database and found no matches.

that is not evidence that no one cheated to profit just because the winners didnt have the same names or same last names as the people involved. they could have had friends claim jackpots or a relative with a different last name.

Tenn. Lottery CEO claims sales unhurt by numerous errors

Lottery Post — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:01:10 GMT

Tennessee Lottery chief Rebecca Hargrove said Monday there's no sign that players have lost confidence despite a daily drawings computer glitch.

A July switch to computerized drawings had incorrectly prevented repeat numbers in the drawings until a programming error was fixed in August. The error meant that no winning draw included duplicate numerals, so any ticket holder who had bet on a number like 2-2-1 or 7-7-7-7 wasn't going to win.

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