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Tennessee Lottery takes back refund offerNews Story
Today the Tennessee Lottery rescinded its offer from last week to refund tickets purchased with the wrong jackpot amount listed. In a release issued on their web site, the Tennessee Lottery emphatically stated, The Tennessee Lottery is not offering refunds for Powerball tickets purchased last week. The Lottery regrets any confusion or inconvenience created by recent reports concerning some tickets sold on Sept. 6 and the morning of Sept. 7, 2007. The lottery stated that players have
Sep 14, 2007, 2:24 pm - Lottery News

Tenn. Lottery: Curse of the computerized drawings?News Story
Again, blames a vendor Ever since the Tennessee Lottery switched to computerized drawings, they have suffered one mishap after another. Some Powerball players will get refunds because of a misprint on Lotto 5, Cash 3 and Cash 4 tickets that showed last Wednesday's Powerball jackpot at $29 million instead of $15 million. James Hawkins of Gallatin reported the misprint after stocking up on Powerball tickets Thursday and Friday, then spotting a billboard that didn't jibe with the jackpot
Sep 13, 2007, 3:52 pm - 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

Ontario Lottery glitch infuriates customers, prevents salesNews Story
Would-be millionaires were angered Wednesday when they were prevented from buying lottery tickets due to a glitch that affected thousands of lottery terminals. Lottery officials said a piece of equipment at their data centre in Toronto malfunctioned. The broken piece of equipment has affected nearly 2,000 lottery terminals across the province, which is equivalent to roughly 20 per cent of their machines. Many of the affected terminals are located in the GTA and eastern Ontario. Local
Jul 11, 2007, 8:33 pm - Lottery News

B.C. Lottery shuts down retailer as probe continuesNews Story
Details not released but latest closure is fifth this year The British Columbia Lottery Corp. has yanked its ticketing terminals from a North Shore kiosk the fifth such shutdown this year, the company says. The move came amid an investigation by B.C. ombudsman Kim Carter of how fairly the provincial lottery system is being run. Her findings are expected to be released next month. As controversy rages nationwide on the suspiciously high number of ticket sellers collecting on winning ti
Apr 20, 2007, 8:40 am - Lottery News

N.C. lottery tickets sold in vending machinesNews Story
Like chips and soda, now you can buy North Carolina scratch-off lottery tickets from vending machines. The lottery began installing 500 machines statewide last week. The vending machines sell 24 games costing $1 to $10 each. Many will go into supermarkets including Food Lion and Lowes Foods, said Alice Garland, lottery deputy executive director. Some will land in convenience stores with high ticket sales to free up clerks. Vending machines are not new to state lotteries. Maryland has us
Apr 10, 2007, 11:13 am - Lottery News

Ontario Lottery players don't know who to trustNews Story
With widespread corruption or at least permissiveness of corruption coming to light in Ontario, lottery players don't know who to turn to when there is a problem. Take, for instance, the case of a player who realized his lottery ticket was mis-printed. Thomas Hong always does what the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. asks him to do check your tickets. And that's what he did on the recent March 16 Super 7 draw, but there was one hitch, he was missing four bonus lines on one ticket
Mar 30, 2007, 8:54 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