Counselor, the NYS Lottery commission, which is governed by the NYS legislation and the rules set forth has a different way to deal with the scratch offs.
Let's say for a scratch off game they print 20 million tickets. Their are over 17 thousand retailers throughout NYS that are authorized sellers. Every business orders games. The have books of scratch offs opened to sell and some behind the counter waiting for them to open them. When a book is opened for sale from that day until 45 days later the retailer has 45 days to pay for the book minus prizes they paid out minus their 6 % they make. If that business goes out of business, bankrupt, sells to some else, transfers ownership or just closes for good or even a few months for lets say an over haul ALL opened books of scratch offs If that business passes the 45 day mark and they do not want to lat out the money for an open book, because it is taking too long to sell they can send it back, or if the representative thinks that book has been sitting too long can send th open book back, or the tickets cannot be scratched the book goes back. ALL opened books sent back GET DESTROYED.
That means that if their is a winner in that group it got destroyed. I want to know why with 6 NYS lotto customer service centers and 15 including the casino customer service centers why these 15 locations cannot sell books that are sent back. They have to stop a game from sales if and when all 1st prize tickets are claimed but if the ticket got destroyed they can keep selling th game and thy get to keep saying their is one winner left even though that one winning ticket got destroyed. So in reality we are chasing a dream that cannot be possible to happen since the ticket got destroyed. So I want to know if we can get NYS legislation to accommodate these open books so that they can still be sold instead of destroyed. It is almost like legalized fraud they are committing.
Not to mention that tickets get robbed and stolen but that amount is nothing compared to the amount of tickets that get destroyed. Do we have a case.