I can see one glaring flaw with the "baby in diapers" drawing method:
How many people would start crying when the baby's parents held the only winning ticket?
This is how the Hoosier Lottery was able to get away with manipulating their games for so many years; people in any state will complain that their lottery is rigged, but they won't go to the trouble of finding proof.
Personally, I don't know of any other state lottery that practices deception on the same scale as Indiana, because I haven't investigated them. However, one of the most important pieces of evidence I have consists of South Carolina's daily game payouts, which are at least twenty times those of Indiana. The interesting thing is that South Carolina has only 15% of Indiana's population, and yet they pay out twenty times more per day, on average. Delaware, too, has higher payouts than we do. In fact, Indiana, despite their claims to the contrary, has the lowest daily game payouts in the country (we also lead the nation in personal bankruptcies and foreclosures). Another important item I have is a copy of the minutes from the SCEL board meeting of January 7, 2003. This document shows that the SC lottery officially adopted a $3.5M liability limit for their Pick-3 game.
Indiana has no published liability limits. Instead, they elect to track player selections on a central computer, so they know which numbers have been played and how much has been bet on each of those numbers, and they have access to this information before the drawing takes place. In addition, they don't air the videotaped drawing (on a local station) until 42 minutes after the drawing takes place. This effectively gives them an hour and 12 minutes to find out which number would minimize their payouts, since they cut off ticket sales a half-hour before the drawing.
We know our liability limit for our Pick-3 game is $270,000.00. We know this is true because a friend of mine got the "Selection Refused" message when she tried to buy a $10.00 ticket for "333" on July first of last year. 333 came up in the midday drawing that day, and there were 540 winners for a total payout of $270k.
I'll say it again: If you suspect shenanigans within your state lottery, LOOK INTO IT!!! Find some information, some evidence to back up your allegations. Go speak with your lottery officials. They're nothing to worry about, believe me, so you shouldn't be afraid to confront them with your suspicions. Go to your local library and make copies of your state gaming laws, and then read them. If you don't understand what you're reading, call your local Legal Services chapter, or your state bar association and have them explain it to you. It's nothing to be ashamed of; lawyers write that way on purpose, so you'll need them to decipher their gobbledegook. Find out who prints your scratch-off tickets and examine them with the same microscope. If Scientific Games manufactures your scratch-off tickets, odds are better than even that they also furnish your online terminals. This is important because your quick-picks are generated at the terminal, not at headquarters (I wouldn't have known this if I hadn't looked into it).
The South Carolina Educational Lottery is only a couple of years old, so it's NOT unusual that quads haven't hit there yet. Ten thousand days is about 27.4 years, so you might be there a while waiting for your particular number to hit.
Every day when I log on to LotteryPost, it seems I see yet another thread on rigged lotteries. Most of the time it's somebody spewing conspiracy theories or ranting that their state lottery must be rigged because he missed the number by one digit two days in a row, or that doubles came up in five consecutive drawings, or some such nonsense. Let's not forget the beating I took here when I first began posting the information I had collected. With the notable exceptions of Todd-our-God and Pick4_Master, no one here believed me, and most were very generous with their criticisms and ridicule. It's a price I was willing and happy to pay, however, because I knew that the evidence I had was solid, verifiable and was not based on speculation.
I don't mean to say, "I told you so" (but I did); I'm only trying to demonstrate that there is more to proving your state lottery is crooked than proclaiming your suspicions on the best lottery forum on the web. That alone does not make it so; you need evidence. Evidence is not necessarily hard proof. It can be something as menial as payouts which suddenly drop in value. It's something, anything, which supports your allegations. Your suspicions may very well be valid, but the simple fact of the matter is that you won't know for certain unless you put a little effort into some fact-finding.
Since it seems that I'm the only one here with experience in this area (except LosingJeff, of course), I hereby offer my services to any member who wants to check out their own lottery. I won't spend any money, I won't make phone calls for you, but I will steer you in the right direction; I'll tell you what to look for and where to find it. I'll also send you copies of some of the documents I've obtained in my own investigation (okay, okay; so I'll spend a couple bucks), which are not exclusive to the Hoosier Lottery. I've spent almost 18 months on my little quest, and the information I can give you will save you a considerable amount of time.
Well, I've done it again. This was going to be a short post but, as usual, I went off on a tangent and penned another tome. Again, I hope you will all accept this in the spirit in which it's intended, and I don't mean to be critical of those who suspect their state lottery might not be on the up-and-up. Quite the opposite, in fact; I want to encourage you to stop ranting and do something about it.
If you decide to investigate your lottery, keep in mind that only one of two possible outcomes can be realized. Either you'll find the proof you're looking for, or you won't. If you don't find anything, then there's nothing to find, and you can play with confidence. Then, you'll be able to alleviate the fears of your fellow state residents or members, some of whom might have their own suspicions, or you'll be able to recruit them to your cause.
Best of luck to all of you...