Arkansas Lottery ticket sales outage caused by severed fiber lines

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music* — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:01:15 GMT

Thank You, Todd, for the clarification and update. Good Luck to all

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noise-gate — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:21:41 GMT

Given the population of the State being less than 3 mil, l doubt it has had a serious impact. Compared to NY CA, Arkansas Is a small village surrounded by a moat.

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Todd — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:30:40 GMT

No, it would affect all lottery games sold through a lottery terminal in the state, which includes Powerball and Mega Millions.

Comment #1

music* — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:16:14 GMT

I am assuming that Mega Millions and Power Ball were not affected.

Arkansas Lottery ticket sales outage caused by severed fiber lines

Lottery Post — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:01:52 GMT

The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery experienced an outage Friday, July 21, which affected the sale of draw game tickets.

The outage began after a work crew severed two fiber lines near the North Shore Business Park in Little Rock.

The system was amended by around 11:00 p.m. the evening of July 21st for about 90 percent of stores, according to a press release from the lottery.

However, there were still more than 100 retailers having problems with their systems over the weekend, affecting t... [ More ]