Oklahoma Lottery wants ban on employee purchases lifted

Comment #14

jamella724 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:06:10 GMT

There must be a good why lottery employees are ban from purchasing lottery tickets. One is that if an employee win public might lose their confidence in lottery. However if they want to give it a shot they might as well try.

Comment #13

HoLeeKau — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:10:28 GMT

The store that sells the ticket is the one who gets credit for big winners. At least I've never seen a banner that said a large winner was cashed here . These weren't sold at any store, and no store gets the credit for cashing them.

Comment #12

RedStang — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:36:33 GMT

They should be allowed to play, but not at the store they work at.

Comment #11

haymaker — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:23:29 GMT

OK, well this is interesting, so this means we can't really rely on the fact that a store is lucky

b/c we don't know if it was used as a checkpoint for fake tickets

Comment #10

noise-gate — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:21:32 GMT

I can't understand why these people are prohibited from purchase a lottery ticket.So they good enough to investigate corruption in retailers who may or may not be screwing the public but if they buy a lottery ticket they become less of an honest person? Does purchasing a lottery ticket throws trust out the window

Comment #9

rdgrnr — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 02:14:48 GMT

Why do all employees have to be allowed to buy if it's just so 3 investigators can catch crooks?

This doesn't pass the smell test.

Way too much opportunity for corruption.

It would be best if no employees were allowed to buy, ever.

Comment #8

helpmewin — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:07:58 GMT

maybe give them a chance

Comment #7

sully16 — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:41:13 GMT

Keep the ban in place.

Comment #6

LottoPerro — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:52:08 GMT

Lottery employees should not be purchasing lottery tickets, exclamation point

Comment #5

HoLeeKau — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:34:04 GMT

Other states check by printing fake tickets, and putting the bar code into their system as a winner. That way the clerk thinks it's a real ticket and makes the decision to steal or be honest based on that. The store is reimbursed for the fake payout by the lottery in the same way they're reimbursed for real winning tickets, without even knowing it was fake, and the regular games and players are not affected.

Comment #4

HoLeeKau — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:27:12 GMT

Oooh, the clerk was fired for stealing! That'll show them

Comment #3

dallascowboyfan — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:13:00 GMT

I don't like it either, if they want to play the lottery they can go to Texas, Kansas, Arkansas or Missouri.

Comment #2

billionaire2bee — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:17:25 GMT

Im thinking the same....let one of them win a jackpot everybody will be like ooooohhhh it's fixed, it's fixed...might lose a little public confidence there

Comment #1

mypiemaster — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:12:30 GMT

Not a good idea, but it can be a test case for other lottery agencies.

Oklahoma Lottery wants ban on employee purchases lifted

Lottery Post — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:51:13 GMT

The Oklahoma Lottery Commission wants to get a law changed to assist it with investigations.

The agency wants to change a law that bans all of its employees from purchasing tickets, said Rollo Redburn, Oklahoma Lottery Commission executive director.

It would be somebody in our security department who could purchase a ticket in the confines of an investigation, said Jay Finks, Oklahoma Lottery Commission director of marketing and administration.

Currently, the agency sends out investiga... [ More ]