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• LOTTOMIKE

  

  Tennessee
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  Jun 1, 2007, 1:36 am

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  do you think in the future a lottery official or person will finally tell what really goes on with RNG draws?

  
• DoubleDown

  

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  Lottomike, my vote is no one will step forward, but if they did, it could prevent financial problems later in life.

   

                                 

                

   

   
• Super8

  

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  In response to DoubleDown

  Quote: Originally posted by DoubleDown on Jun 1, 2007

  Lottomike, my vote is no one will step forward, but if they did, it could prevent financial problems later in life.

  I agree 100%.

  Super8
• hypersoniq

  

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  Jun 1, 2007, 9:11 pm

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  I voted "no one will ever step forward"

  but, after consulting the Murphy's Law Library... They will on the exact day I crack the code for PA's Mid-Day games... then I won't get to take'em to the bank :-(... AND I'll need a new time-wasting hobby.

  Have an EXCELlent day!
• KY Floyd

  

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  They've already come forward and told us what goes on. The RNG  generates a winning number that is, for all practical purposes, completely random, but once in a great while a hardware problem results in a glitch.
• justxploring

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by DoubleDown on Jun 1, 2007

  Lottomike, my vote is no one will step forward, but if they did, it could prevent financial problems later in life.

  I hope they choose the cash option.
• pacattack05

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  Sure there is a bad apple in every group, but I think people are just being too paranoid. To say that every computerized drawing is rigged, is rediculous to me.
• weshar75

  

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  Jun 2, 2007, 8:20 am

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  I had this conversation with one of the lottery reps one time and he said that the reason Oregon went to computerized draws was to save on the bottom line.  The lottery decided to do away with ball draws and the money they had to spend to televise the draws.  They decided it would be more cost effective to just use the computer.  To me though it removes the excitement out of the drawing aspect.-weshar75
• MillionsWanted

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by weshar75 on Jun 2, 2007

  I had this conversation with one of the lottery reps one time and he said that the reason Oregon went to computerized draws was to save on the bottom line.  The lottery decided to do away with ball draws and the money they had to spend to televise the draws.  They decided it would be more cost effective to just use the computer.  To me though it removes the excitement out of the drawing aspect.-weshar75

  The excitement people get from watching the drawing on TV will disappear and they might lose on the bottom line by people stop buying tickets for that reason.
• JimmySand9

  

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  Jun 4, 2007, 1:40 am

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  No one will say anything because there's nothing incriminating to tell. No lottery director had any ill-will when switching all drawings to RNG. And anything that might be wrong with the RNGs cannot be proven because there is no transparency with computerized drawings. 

  (insert signature here)
• DoctorEw220

  

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  With today's technology, and how insecure and easy it is to break into and manipulate, someone will stumble upon it and threaten to expose it.  That's when someone will come forward and come clean.

  I've redone my website.  Go to www.dr-ew.com.  I kept a lot of the old stuff, and I've added some new stuff.  Look for more new stuff in the coming weeks.