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Glitch Delays Jersey Cash 5 Lottery DrawingNews Story
A mechanical glitch forced New Jersey Lottery officials to manually draw the winning numbers for the Jersey Cash 5 game on Friday night. The machine containing those game balls jammed, so they followed the emergency procedures, which call for an off-air manual drawing that is observed by the independent auditor, New Jersey Lottery spokesman Dominick DeMarco said. It was not immediately clear what caused the problem, or whether a similar machine problem had ever previously affected a New
Jun 16, 2007, 12:33 pm - Lottery News

West Virgina Lottery's help line under scrutinyNews Story
Director seeks probe of allegations by outgoing official over problem-gambler program The director of the West Virginia Lottery asked for an investigation Tuesday of allegations over the Lottery's handling of the state's Problem Gambler Help Network. Lottery Director John Musgrave asked for the investigation by the Legislative Auditor after the head of First Choice Health Systems of Charleston criticized a new contract that will give the Lottery more oversight over the 7-year-old help-line
Jun 8, 2007, 8:06 am - Lottery News

At least 2 lottery winners will split record $370 million jackpotNews Story
California system problem delays reporting of matching ticket data from that state Ohio Lottery spokeswoman Mardele Cohen says New Jersey and Georgia told the state they sold one winning ticket each for the U.S. record $370 million jackpot. She says the other states call in their results because Ohio balances the books in the 12-state game. Because of a system problem, results from California are not yet in. Meanwhile, Ohio Lottery officials will be reviewing the system today to find
Mar 7, 2007, 7:58 am - Lottery News

Company proposes new pooling lottery ticket to fight 'jackpot fatigue'News Story
An Arizona company has designed a new lottery ticket concept that would enter the purchaser in a pool with other lottery players, at the same time entering chances that are not part of the pool. The company claims that the increased number of chances to win will combat jackpot fatigue, a sense of dimished player excitement over large jackpots leading to lower ticket sales. The company hopes to attract state lotteries with its promise of higher sales. According to the company's press reles
Feb 9, 2007, 7:00 pm - Lottery News

R.I. lottery machine prints invalid ticketsNews Story
They entered the store with hopes of striking it rich through a winning lottery ticket. They exited with bogus tickets all dated from 1999. A lottery machine mix-up Thursday resulted in roughly 70 invalid tickets being printed at a Cranston convenience store, the Rhode Island Lottery said Friday. The problem was caused by a field service technician for the gaming technology company Gtech Holdings Corp. who accidentally replaced a malfunctioning machine at Oaklawn Mart with a model termin
Jan 15, 2007, 3:15 pm - Lottery News

Connecticut lottery machines offline for hoursNews Story
Phone line problems to blame for outage affecting one-third of lottery machines Lottery sales were fully restored in New Haven County Friday night, hours after telephone line problems shut down more than 900 state lottery machines earlier in the day. Diane Patterson, a spokeswoman for the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, said the machines, which constitute about one-third of the state's lottery ticket dispensing terminals, were off-line as of late Friday afternoon. Lottery officials con
Dec 29, 2006, 11:29 pm - Lottery News

Maryland Lottery machine glitches frustrate playersNews Story
New system suffers long breakdowns, customers complain A new lottery sales system being installed at thousands of convenience, liquor and grocery stores statewide has experienced breakdowns of up to several hours at a time this week, Maryland Lottery officials said Friday. Store owners and avid players in search of their daily numbers were frustrated and furious. Customers have let store owners hear their displeasure especially those who can't play the popular Keno game. You should s
Jun 5, 2006, 7:12 am - Lottery News

N.C. Powerball lottery sales begin, with difficultyNews Story
Computer glitches and printer problems hit 20% of vendors North Carolinians played Powerball to the tune of more than $1 million during the first day of sales Tuesday, despite computer glitches and printer problems that plagued nearly 20 percent of the state's lottery retailers. Many ticket buyers and sellers in the Charlotte area were upbeat, even though some stores could not sell tickets for the multi-state lottery game for several hours. The new game paid off in sales for Victor Madh
May 31, 2006, 9:51 am - Lottery News

Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $114 millionNews Story
Release of Saturday winner information and start of Sunday sales delayed to due systems problems Powerball winner results were delayed for the drawing on Saturday, May 13, 2006. Strict balancing and processing requirements for the game required all systems to delay the start of ticket cashing for the game on Sunday morning. Once all systems were confirmed to be in balance, at 6:55 a.m. Eastern, sales and cashing were authorized for all retailers across the country. The Powerball
May 15, 2006, 11:12 am - Lottery News

Intralot wins Idaho Lottery from larger rival GtechNews Story
The Idaho Lottery will have a new vendor starting next February after a Greek company that's expanding in the U.S. won a $30 million contract to run the state's scratch ticket and online gaming system from a larger rival. Intralot USA, a Georgia-based unit of Athens, Greece-based Intralot, beat out Rhode Island-based GTech by promising better service for instance, Idaho's online games, including Powerball, will run 24 hours a day under Intralot, up from the previous 22 hours and a more-at
May 3, 2006, 8:36 am - Lottery News