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Are State Lotteries Honest?

Asked by john65pennington (29268points) December 18th, 2009

Approximately two years ago, an employee of the Tennnessee State Lottery, admitted she programed the computer, so that double numbers would be in the pick 3 and pick 4 winning numbers. Tennessee use to have bingo balls drawn to arrive at the winning numbers, but decided to change to a computer-drawn system. i do not trust a computer-drawn form of lottery. it can be easily tampered with as shown above. are state lotteries really honest? are the employees given polygraphs to prove their honesty? does anyone know?

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dpworkin's avatar

It doesn’t really matter. Lotteries are to be avoided in any case.

grumpyfish's avatar

For exactly this reason, the results are continuously audited, if trends are appearing, there’s an investigation.

Even in the bingo balls system, people have tampered—someone filled some of the balls about a decade ago so those numbers would come up less (in the pop-up style machines).

I loaded in the new set at the Texas Lotto Commission back in 2001, the security at the site was crazy, and the machines weren’t even there yet.

stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

Pennsylannia used a ball-type system and someone rigged that about 25 years ago. Better to stay away from lotteries altogether.

JLeslie's avatar

I never thought to question it. How awful.

bolwerk's avatar

State loterries advance the state’s goal of stealing from its most vulnerable citizens. So, no, state lotteries are not honest, but few things the state does qualify as honest.

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