Are State Lotteries Honest?

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

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.

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

I never thought to question it. How awful.

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.