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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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.