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DC Lottery offers compensation for players affected by computerized draw errorNews Story
DC Lottery offers several pathways for remediation after programming error caused untold tickets to lose out By Kate Northrop After Lottery Post alerted the DC Lottery to a possible error that prevented tickets from winning in three of its local draw games for weeks, the DC Lottery has announced several different forms of compensation for players who may have been impacted by the computerized drawing glitch. Last week, Lottery Post reached out to the DC Lottery after Lottery Post mem
Apr 27, 2026, 7:22 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Anti Computerized Lottery Petition
Anyone know if the petition to eliminate computerized drawings is gaining steam?Any other orgs supporting the measure?Thanks
Apr 23, 2026, 6:57 am - meta19 - Lottery Discussion Forum

Florida: 4/1 - 4/30/2026Reply
Yeah computerized drawings are a whole different animal than ball machines. Computerized drawings should be boycotted. But with ball machines, it's an extremely rare occurrence to see the results come out like this within 3 consecutive drawings. The 95 pair just hit for the 5th consecutive time. I can't remember ever seeing the same pair hit 5x in a row. I'm mean sure these events are bound to happen eventually over the years. I've just never seen this happen in my 17 years o
Apr 28, 2026, 1:51 pm - LottoIntuitive - Pick 3 Forum

Anti Computerized Lottery PetitionReply
part of the problem with computerized drawings is that state lotteries use third party vendors to make overly elaborate computer programs that the lottery employees themselves cannot easily audit because they're run on some proprietary systems. an eighth grader could write a simple python or javascript program to generate lottery numbers. this is not difficult stuff. and it would be cheaper to do this in-house. but probably some lottery officials get kickbacks for outsourcing every single l
Apr 23, 2026, 12:53 pm - Brock Lee - Lottery Discussion Forum

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
I have a bit of sympathy about that response that players were getting from the lottery, mainly because the lotteries all get accused by angry gamblers daily of being rigged. So the handful of messages they might have received as a result of this drawing error were likely dwarfed by the daily onslaught of similar messages that do not have a shred of proof. You really can't expect a customer service rep to sort all that out, and the result is a canned response, because most of the time what they
Apr 22, 2026, 6:41 pm - Todd - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeReply
With regard to the last paragraph, I remember watching the DC Lottery drawings when they used balls. It was much more entertaining the first time I saw the computerized drawing on TV, I stopped watching the drawings on TV. Even though I live in a RNG lottery state, I go onto the Texas Lottery website every once in a while to watch their live drawings.
Apr 27, 2026, 12:10 am - Hermanus104 - Lottery News

EXCLUSIVE: Weeks-long computerized draw error prevented many DC Lottery tickets from winning a prizeNews Story
Certain combinations had no chance of winning for three weeks By Kate Northrop Following independent observations by Lottery Post members of an unlikely statistical anomaly in Washington, D.C. draw outcomes, the DC Lottery identified a software problem that meant certain combinations had no shot at winning prizes in three games. The DC Lottery has implemented a fix for a coding error that prevented some tickets from winning in three of its local draw games for three weeks. After
Apr 22, 2026, 1:47 pm - Todd - Lottery News

Anti Computerized Lottery PetitionReply
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Apr 27, 2026, 9:24 am - LottoBux - Lottery Discussion Forum