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Tennessee Lottery a step closer to restoring real drawingsNews Story
A Tennessee House panel has advanced a proposal to require the state lottery to abandon computerized drawings for its games. House Minority Leader Jason Mumpower, a Bristol Republican, says he sponsored the manual drawings measure in response to a loss in consumer confidence following a computer programming error last year. The glitch prevented duplicate numbers to be drawn for nearly a month. Lottery officials estimate it would cost about $5 million a year to return to drawing numbered
Apr 2, 2008, 11:02 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. lawmakers want to force lottery to drop computer drawsNews Story
There is new discussion in the Tennessee Legislature about the possibility of the state lottery going back to using ping-pong balls to select the Cash 3 and Cash 4 winners. In 2007, a computer programming error prevented anyone who played repeated digits, such as two fives in a row, from winning. The error was discovered Aug. 20 when lottery officials contacted the system designer, Smartplay, about their concerns. The lottery is asking Smartplay, and the company that certified the syste
Mar 26, 2008, 9:08 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery audit: players spent $2 million on worthless ticketsNews Story
Lottery responded too slowly; problem fixed 10 minutes after finding it The Tennessee Lottery made a series of missteps and oversights after a software glitch began generating faulty winning numbers last year, and players bought about $2 million worth of unwinnable tickets before the error was found, according to a state audit. The sweeping audit from state Comptroller John G. Morgan reviewed the entire episode between July 28 and Aug. 20, when a programming glitch caused no duplicate digi
Mar 19, 2008, 10:48 am - Lottery News

N.J. lottery midday draws held late, not televisedNews Story
The New Jersey Lottery's computer system is back on-line, after being down for about 3½ hours this afternoon, officials said. The disruption in service, which shut down Lottery machines throughout the state and caused a delay in the drawing of the Satuday midday numbers, was blamed on high winds and heavy rains that hit the state today. Lottery machines went down about 12:30 p.m. Service was restored shortly before 4 p.m., said Dominick DeMarco, a spokesman for the Lottery Commissio
Mar 8, 2008, 5:14 pm - Lottery News

Lottery Post for iPhone earns Apple 'Staff Pick'News Story
Lottery Post, the world's largest community of lottery players, today announced that the new iPhone Edition of its popular Web site was awarded a Staff Pick by Apple. The iPhone, built by Apple, is a combination cell phone and handheld computer. It went on sale June, 2007, and has sold over 5 millions units. Apple claimed Thursday that the iPhone currently makes up 28% of the smartphone market. The iPhone is an ideal platform for lottery results and other lottery-related content, said Tod
Mar 7, 2008, 12:59 pm - Lottery News

Newspaper editorial in favor of authentic lottery drawingsNews Story
Lottery balls are preferred The Leaf-Chronicle Clarksville, Tennessee Wednesday, January 16, 2008 People do not completely trust computers. They may use them for work and for pleasure, but they don't have absolute confidence in them or in those who program them. When it comes to the state lottery, confidence was shaken more because of a malfunction regarding the lottery's new random-number-generating computers. For weeks last summer, the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games would not produce re
Jan 16, 2008, 11:24 am - Lottery News

Tenn. lawmakers trying to force lottery to switch back to real drawsNews Story
Bills filed in legislature; supported by Senate and House leadership The Tennessee state legislature may force the state lottery to return to using numbered balls to select winners for the Cash 3 and Cash 4 games. Legislative leaders have expressed concern about the lottery's switch to computerized drawings, especially after a computer glitch last year. Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, and Rep. Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol, the House's minority leader, have filed bills to require the lott
Jan 12, 2008, 11:18 am - Lottery News

Contractors steal $70,000 in lottery prize moneyNews Story
Computer system breached; technicians printed bogus tickets, investigators allege D.C. officials were told last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial I
Jan 9, 2008, 3:53 pm - Lottery News

Tennessee Lottery glitch parade marches onNews Story
Lottery calls first glitch of the new year 'minor' The new year brought another glitch to the Tennessee lottery, this time with a miscounting Web site clock. The clock is supposed to show the number of days until the Jan. 22 grand prize drawing for the Million $ Madness game. Instead, as the new year dawned, the clock began showing the wrong number of days. It was showing 86 days when James Hawkins logged on to the Web site about 5:30 p.m. New Year's Day. Although the clock show
Jan 2, 2008, 10:40 pm - Lottery News

D.C. Lottery thefts tied to lax security processesNews Story
D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the District of Columbia Lottery Charitable Games Control Board. An investigation conducted by Battelle Memorial Institute in August 2006 determined the ticket thefts were most likely com
Dec 21, 2007, 12:34 pm - Lottery News