Wednesday, June 11, 2008
"Stale Tickets"
Lottery News (Just had to drop this in here...)
A Washington & Lee statistics professor, Scott Hoover is suing the Virginia State Lottery. The claim states that the Virginia Lottery continues to advertise and sell scratch off tickets after prizes have been won. The lawsuit requests that the state reimburse all those players to whom it sold "stale tickets."
If this is true then a lot of scratch-off games will have to go through significant changes. Not just in Virginia but everywhere. With the cost of creating a game, advertising it, printing and distributing millions of tickets the state will certainly have a hard time earning any money if winners are announced too early.
Here's more from yesterday's Washington Post:Labels: documentary, Lawsuit, Scott Hoover, stale tickets, The Lottery, The Ticket, Virginia Lottery, Washington and Lee, washinton post
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