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Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteries
Washington Post ^
| 12/18/15
| Ryan J. Foley and David Pitt
Posted on 12/21/2015 7:17:58 AM PST by jalisco555
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To: jalisco555
If they rigged lottery, why not slots?
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:22:08 AM PST
by
Raycpa
To: jalisco555
Pittsburgh was first with Triple 6 Nick.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:24:23 AM PST
by
Eagles6
( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
To: Raycpa
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:24:40 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Good point! I trusted our old mechanical voting machines and they worked fine.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:26:21 AM PST
by
Raycpa
To: Raycpa
If they rigged lottery, why not slots?Slots have always been rigged to pay out some percentage (less than 100, of course) of whatever is fed into them.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:27:56 AM PST
by
jalisco555
("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
To: jalisco555
But, but, the money was just sitting there ...
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:28:15 AM PST
by
SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: Raycpa
Good point! I trusted our old mechanical voting machines and they worked fine.Paper ballots are best of all.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:28:44 AM PST
by
jalisco555
("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
To: jalisco555
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:29:15 AM PST
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Raycpa
To: Raycpa
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:33:42 AM PST
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: jalisco555
Then, of course, the casinos decide that a slot has malfunctioned when some poor schlub hits the jackpot, and they give him nothing, except maybe a free meal.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:37:45 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: jalisco555
New York State Lottery officials were overheard remarking, “Hey, you never know!”
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:37:47 AM PST
by
immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum)
To: Raycpa
But randomly.Presumably. But now that they're all essentially networked computers who knows for sure?
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:39:05 AM PST
by
jalisco555
("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
To: Raycpa
Slots are rigged at the mainframe level. That’s why the big jackpots at the Indian casinos are always a ‘machine malfunction’. But it would seem to be harder to have your associate get on the right machine at the right time for the payoff if you were trying to deliver a jackpot from the central computer. Easier to rig them to not pay off a jackpot at all.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:41:51 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: jalisco555
Should give us some idea what electronic voting is subject to.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:44:18 AM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support the troops pray for their victory!)
To: jalisco555
Hey! Don’t forget to give these “tickets” out as Christmas presents. Spread the joy... I say.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:44:56 AM PST
by
rusureitflies?
(Not much to say, yet.)
To: jalisco555
To: jalisco555
Iowa got suspicious in 2012 after a New York lawyer representing a newly created trust tried to claim the $16.5 million Hot Lotto jackpot on behalf of a Belize-registered corporation, turning in the ticket hours before a one-year deadline. The trust eventually withdrew the claim rather than identify the ticket purchaser.Investigators initially suspected the buyer was merely trying to hide the winnings from a former spouse or creditor. Still, who would walk away from $16.5 million?
The case took an even more dramatic twist after authorities sought the public's help, releasing surveillance video showing a stocky, hooded man buying the winning ticket and hot dogs at a service station in December 2010. Lottery colleagues were stunned, stepping forward to say the man looked and sounded like Tipton.
Stupid greed exposed him.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:47:33 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(DUmmie Skinner: Bought & Paid For By Hillary)
To: jalisco555
I liked the slots in overseas officers’ clubs. They were set to give-back 93%.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:53:59 AM PST
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: butlerweave
Big lotteries use non-computer methods of generating winning numbers. This guy was an insider who exploited a security weakness in computer-picked winning numbers, which were used only in the some games with lesser prizes, but still big enough to take a risk.
I’d guess insiders with political ties pull pull scams more commonly in the few states that allow jackpot winners to be anonymous.
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posted on
12/21/2015 7:57:48 AM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
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