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New York Lottery won't pay $25,000 for taped-up scratch-off ticketNews Story
Woman plans to file lawsuit against the lottery By the time lottery officials told Patricia Manzitto that her winning ticket was a fake, she already had spent nearly half the $25,000 she thought she'd won. But when Manzitto went to collect her winnings four days later, officials at the New York Lottery's Garden City center told her that it looked as if her ticket had been forged by taping two halves of different tickets together. Lottery officials refused to pay up. Manzitto, 64, of Ea
Oct 23, 2007, 9:20 am - Todd - Lottery News

Fla. Lottery to try vending machines... againReply
lol The automated, always there, mechanical, lottery ticket vending clerk. Too easy. Too convenient. Too enticing. Come out of the checkout isle with say $8.66 change...where does it go if it doesn't go into your pocket on the way out? Into the machine. Lottery counter shut down? Real people went home? Go to the all night store where the robot vendor is constantly waiting and ready to suck up your money and dispense your tickets. lol They knew what they were doin
Jun 5, 2009, 4:08 pm - dr65 - Lottery News

Stores OK with releasing Iowa Lottery TouchPlay dataNews Story
Iowa convenience store operators, whose sales information has been made public for years by the Iowa Lottery, say they won't try to block the release of financial information requested by The Des Moines Register about TouchPlay machines. We don't have a dog in the fight. We don't care, the president of the trade group that represents convenience stores said Thursday. It's always been public. All lottery sales are public information by location. Dawn Carlson of the Petroleum Marketers a
Feb 24, 2006, 7:11 am - Todd - Lottery News