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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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