So the state lottery does a second chance drawing every so often, with prizes between 100$ and 25000$. The winner of the recent 25k lottery was from a totally different state, and their name means "Winner" in the home language of their country. Is this more proof of fraud or do the lottery companies operate as a private entity, thereby making their own laws and rules? I also clearly remember that 1.8 or whatever billion lottery having discrepancies about the drawing date/time.
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Epstein "won" the lottery...McDonald's rigged the monopoly payouts....you're supposed to play "for the schools" in Missouri. The lottery should be outlawed. It's just another scheme where the rich steal from everyone else.
Agreed. We need a constitutional amendment outlawing lotteries.
No, they need to be truly unrigged then eveyone who plays has an equal chance. Old fashioned ping pong ball drawing. No fuckery. No weighted balls. No digital drawings.
I think it can be and has been but not always. I know of a guy who won the lucky for life multi state lotto. He is a nobody, not to be mean, but in the sense that he wasnt hooked up to win it
I also knew a kid whose dad had one a few million in the 90s. They have to let a few normies win or it would spoil the bigger game
...I have the same chance of winning the lottery whether I play or not....
You have a 0.000000000001% chance of winning if you play. That chance disappears if you say no thanks.
My Pop called the lottery, "The Idiot Tax."
It is said to be a tax on people who can't do math(s).
In the UK, if you buy a lottery ticket at the start of the week you are 14,000 times more likely to die before the end of the week than you are to win first prize in the lottery.
The lottery is an outright ponzi scheme.
Winners can be from wherever. Location in reference to lottery has to do with where tickets are sold. Just fyi
For example a state doesn't have a certain lottery but a border state does. People in the non-lottery state can cross state lines to the border state and buy tickets. The non-lottery state doesn't get tax money for the sold tickets from the residents that purchased the tickets in the first place.
This is what happened to North Dakota before the state adopted its own lottery to play Powerball. Whenever a jackpot was to be realized, the cities of East Grand Forks, Moorhead, and Breckenridge, Minnesota all benefited from Lottery sales from residents in Grand Forks, Fargo, and Wahpeton, North Dakota.
Yea but as I stated in the post, this was a second chance state lottery..from scratchers purchased in the state. The winner was from the other side of the U.S.
Unless I am getting something wrong here...all the winners have been from this state except this one peculiar 25k drawing.
I buy tickets all the time on vacation in another state
I'm not understanding what the issue is. Is there some clause in your state's second chance drawing that excludes people who reside out of state?
not that I know of. I have never seen an out of state winner especially one with a first name of Winner
I'd bet big money the lotteries are rigged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Pennsylvania_Lottery_scandal