Well the voting analogy depends what party you favor because I never heard a republican question how deBold runs the elections. Heck, one VIP said he could guarantee an outcome years ago.
Yes, as seen in the news, there are historical ‘glitches’ that raise an eyebrow. I guess it all depends on what side of the fence you are on. One guy here is an expert on all things lottery and does all he can to do damage control on ‘Hot’ topics. There is every reason to believe the software can be manipulated and since much information about the playing public and distributed QP’s is protected from public view, we have reason to question what is going on.
What is important to the lotteries is to get big jackpots to draw more QP sales and spontaneous enthusiastic players. Computer ‘glitches’ are now getting attention with a national forum like this. The more it happens, the more it will get revealed, State by State. With all the States in financial trouble I doubt anything will happen until the lotteries go bust along with the States. Besides, elected and appointed public servants know what is best for you. Like the expert said, we are ignorant (of math) and play the games as ignorant. What a tell!
DD