Friday, March 21, 2008

Tennessee Lottery

Recently Tennessee has changed the way the winning numbers are chosen for the lottery. It used to be that balls with numbers were spun around and then dropped. Whichever balls came out were the winning numbers. Now there is a computer system that chooses the numbers at random. Right when I heard about it I did not understand how that could be equally fair. I was actually proven to be right that this electric drawing was too good to be true. They have found that there was an error in it and duplicate numbers could not be chosen. People are allowed to choose reoccurring numbers so this caused a huge problem. Those who choose reoccurring numbers had no chance of winning and therefore had to be refunded the money they spent on their tickets. The lottery is also suing the computer company that made the system. They have now done more tests and are hoping all will be fixed. Really I think this is too much trouble for something that really takes more money from people than giving. I still would not trust it because computers can get viruses and such anytime. People already have a small chance at winning the lottery and this only makes it even more unreliable.

2 comments:

Nancy said...

If it's not broke, don't try to fix it as the saying goes.

Brandi said...

i didn't know that until i read this blog of yours! that's pretty interesting to know though. i don't know if i really like the lottery though! i think it is a waste of money and it definitely sucks when someone buys a ticket and gets nothing out of it! but hey, atleast we get the hope scholarship out of it!!