Anyone get IDed?

Reply #20

JoshUK — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:39:49 GMT

It's 16 to play here and I get ID'd still if I have shaved recently... can be slightly annoying when the clerk gives you that strange look to gauge your age then just asks you for ID haha.

Reply #19

trap574 — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 23:08:47 GMT

first time ever upstate ny store chain,lic. or date of birth,NYL collecting DATA. Asked about win4 bonus days,knew squat Lots changed here as far as win4+numbers games go. Good Luck to anyone still playing

Reply #18

GYM RICE — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 03:10:20 GMT

If every place started doing it

Reply #17

grwurston — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 01:52:32 GMT

Why don't you get in touch with your state's lottery offices and ask them why this needs to be done. If they say it's not necessary, then file a complaint against the store(s) that are doing it.

If they face the loss of their lottery license, that should stop it real quick.

Reply #16

dr65 — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:13:30 GMT

I wouldn't buy the tickets there. Too much info on your license.

Banks scan your eyes these days...what will they want next?

A pound of flesh

Reply #15

John99 — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 22:58:50 GMT

Theres several things that could come from scanning the IDs, I mean in general it could be collecting data for who plays the most, which area lottery seems to be more popular,ect...

but it on the other side, for the people who like conspiracy theories, they could run wild saying certain games are wanting to control the statistics of who wins at certain times or things of that nature... It just starts to throw a bunch of question marks around, and I don't like that part. The games are har... [ More ]

Reply #14

PrisonerSix — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 22:05:40 GMT

I don't blame you. I don't like have to show my ID for stuff either but when I do, I show them a passport card. Those don't have my address on them, just name, date of birth, and the state I was born in. Some clerks give me odd looks when I give them that, but they take it. One wasn't sure what to do with it since it wasn't able to be scanned and had to ask a coworker, but she didn't give me an argument after I pointed out it's a legal form of ID issued by the federal government.

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Reply #13

PrisonerSix — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 21:58:27 GMT

Louisiana Driver's licenses(and I'm sure other states) have both a magnetic strip and an optical code on the back of them which can be scanned. The lottery terminals the clerks use here can scan the magnetic strip, while the vending machines use the optical code to verify age. My passport card doesn't have anything on it they can scan, so all they can do is put in the date of birth.

I don't know if these scanners(magnetic or optical) are just checking date of birth, or are they checking so... [ More ]

Reply #12

GYM RICE — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 20:20:48 GMT

I'd never give my id to buy tickets. I'd quit playing if everyone place started doing it...

Reply #11

John99 — Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:28:04 GMT

Yeah, checking the age is one thing... But I do not like them sacnning anyone's ID, that starts to open some suspicious doors in my thinking...

i have not been asked for an ID yet any of the places I go.

Reply #10

LottoMetro — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:35:57 GMT

Weird. I've never been ID'd for lotto. Casinos yes but never lotto. Heck, the first time I bought alcohol I wasn't even ID'd (of course that was some time ago). Anyone really desperate for getting around the rules will always find somewhere willing to skirt them, and it's not the places that ID you.

Reply #9

PrisonerSix — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 22:38:00 GMT

In my area, there's a chain of convenience stores that IDs everyone. I've also seen them ID people for booze and cigarettes. It's their policy to ID everyone. I decided not to get my tickets there anymore.

This store is a supermarket I've been going to for years. The last 3 times I bought tickets there, they checked my ID and when I showed them my license, they scanned it in the terminal. I started using my passport card with them and they couldn't scan it, but they did enter something int... [ More ]

Reply #8

Think — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 15:47:04 GMT

Maybe they are making too much money and they need to decrease sales

Reply #7

TheMeatman2005 — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:05:56 GMT

I was in a gas station in CT and they had a scratch-off ticket vending machine. It required you to scan your driver licence in order to complete a purchase.

Reply #6

LiveInGreenBay — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:45:09 GMT

Nanny State.

Reply #5

rcbbuckeye — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:41:36 GMT

Doesn't happen in Texas. It would seem it's the state requiring some if not all stores to try to keep underage people from buying tix, just like cigs and alcohol.

They would have to set up vending machines somehow to check id's.

Reply #4

HoLeeKau — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 12:32:09 GMT

Yes, a chain of tobacco stores started IDing me every time and I quit going there too. I've never been ID'd anywhere else, but I noticed when I buy from the CS counter at a grocery store that the phrase ID BYPASSED flashes briefly on their screen.

It would be ridiculous to ID at the counter because the vending machines don't require ID. Hope that's not a foreshadow of things to come with machines requiring ID scans too. One more thing to go wrong with the machines. Geez.

Reply #3

hearsetrax — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:12:11 GMT

sounds very suspicious to me ...

unless they were under watch by the state lottery or the PD for selling booze/lottery tickets to under cover folks that looked under age

Reply #2

destinycreation — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 04:13:46 GMT

Why are they scanning your ID to purchase a lottery ticket ??? Is it a new requirement in your state

Reply #1

Kingofearth — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:49:36 GMT

I've seen high school students wearing their school uniforms buying scratch offs and tickets in most of the places near my hometown. The lottery store near my college asked for ID the first time and then they never asked again. I would not return to a place that scans everyone, such a place has no common sense about how to run a business.

Anyone get IDed?

PrisonerSix — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 03:27:36 GMT

Anyone get their ID checked when they buy lottery tickets? I'm 48 and one place I've been buying tickets for some time has just started IDing me. They don't just check my license, they also scan it with the lottery terminal. I wonder if they keep the info on every license they scan. I'm not sure I like that so I've started using a passport card as ID. It has name and date of birth, but no address and the lottery terminal can't scan it.

There's one chain of stores that IDs everyone, so I do... [ More ]