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Tenn. Lottery says duplicate numbers drawn were legit; can we be sure?News Story
Strange drawing results come right after revelation of weeks of flawed drawings The Tennessee Lottery's Cash 3 game had the exact same winning number in both the midday and evening drawings Thursday. Kym Gerlock, vice president of communications for the Tennessee Lottery, said the reappearance of number 940 was random chance. It was not an error. It's rare, but it does happen, Gerlock said. Each drawing is a totally separate instance and one is not related to another. Gerlock sai
Aug 31, 2007, 8:19 pm - Lottery News

Official wants fraud probe of Tennessee LotteryNews Story
UPDATED (Aug. 28, 2007, 11:44 am) Internal documents added The Tennessee Lottery should investigate whether fraud was behind a computer malfunction that affected the results for Cash 3 and Cash 4 games, the lottery board's audit chairman says. James H. Ripley, a Sevierville attorney who heads the 3-year-old lottery's audit group, said the agency should probe more deeply into why a computer software problem prevented duplicate numbers from being drawn for a three-week period. A lotter
Aug 28, 2007, 9:44 am - Lottery News

Engineer reported bad Tenn. Lottery computerized drawsNews Story
Tennessee Lottery was slow to act, even after repeated warnings from many players; many call for the return of real lottery drawings The Tennessee Lottery appears to have been slow to investigate reports of a major flaw in its new computerized drawing system, even in the face of multiple warnings from players. Lee Lemonds and his wife watch The Wheel of Fortune every night and because the lottery drawing comes on the same television station, they usually see it as well. It didn't take
Aug 24, 2007, 11:29 am - Lottery News

Tenn Lottery spokeswoman said no chance of drawing errorNews Story
Lottery Post Exclusive By Todd Northrop In early August, when Tennessee Lottery players began seeing the effects of the state's new computerized drawing system, and didn't like what they saw, the lottery's spokeswoman responded with reassuring words. Now she is forced to eat those words. The security and integrity of our games is of utmost importance, said Kym Gerlock, a spokeswoman for the Lottery. There's no reason to doubt these drawings or question the integrity of how we do th
Aug 23, 2007, 4:17 pm - Lottery News

Players warned lottery about tickets flawNews Story
Tennessee lottery players say they warned lottery officials more than 10 days ago that a new computerized system to pick random numbers in the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games appeared to be malfunctioning. They say they were ignored for days while a computer software glitch kept duplicate numbers from being drawn in the games. That meant players who picked numbers like 6-6-9 in Cash 3 or 5-5-5-3 in Cash 4 had no chance of winning. Lottery officials announced Tuesday that the glitch had been correc
Aug 23, 2007, 11:00 am - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery glitch shuts out playersNews Story
Robert Johnson's lucky number is typically 909, but not this month. The Nashville man has played the Tennessee Lottery's Cash 3 game twice a day, every day this month, and his numbers haven't come up. Turns out, they couldn't have. A computer programming error has prevented any number from being selected more than once in Cash 3 and Cash 4 drawings over the past three weeks, the Tennessee Lottery said Tuesday. The error meant that no winning draw included duplicate numerals, so any tic
Aug 22, 2007, 10:50 am - Lottery News

Atlantic Lottery adds new ticket security measuresNews Story
The Atlantic Lottery Corp. is introducing more measures aimed at tightening the security of lottery ticket validation, the corporation said this week. Starting Monday, the corporation's online ticket terminals will print two slips whenever a winning ticket is validated for an amount the retailer is to pay, a release Wednesday said. After validating winning tickets, retailers will be required to pay the prize, stamp the winning tickets Paid, and return them along with one of the validation
Aug 12, 2007, 10:17 am - Lottery News

Lottery results cell phone service is first of its kindNews Story
txtGroups and Lottery Post Team Up to Provide Text Message Lottery Results txtGroups, Inc. and Lottery Post announced today that they are joining forces to provide instant lottery results to North American SMS subscribers. The new cell phone text messaging service, called Lottery Results Mobile Alerts, covers every lottery game played in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and United Kingdom. Other worldwide lottery games will be added soon. Anyone with a cell phone can sign up f
Feb 26, 2007, 11:41 am - 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

UK Lottery computer glitch eliminated the number '9'News Story
Thousands of United Kingdom Lottery players have been given free draw entries to make up for technical problems with computer-generated ticket numbers. A database glitch hit entries for the new Dream Number game last month, operator Camelot said yesterday. Some entries bought online or by text in the four days to July 17 did not contain the digit nine. They were still entered for draws on either July 15 or July 19 both of which contained the digit nine somewhere in the seven winnin
Aug 16, 2006, 1:03 pm - Lottery News