Most places that sell lotto tickets also have surveillance cameras. So he could at least subpoena them and perhaps establish that he did buy a ticket at a certain place and time, and the state lottery commission knows exactly what place and time the winning tickets are sold.
the state lottery commission knows exactly what place and time the winning tickets are sold.
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They sure do.
Sometimes they even know in advance who the winner will be.
And there is the answer.
When Altadena was announced as the place big ticket was sold, I was happy because that’s a wealthy suburb, or at least it was 40 years ago when I left CA. So people would know how to manage money Guess I was wrong,
There was a case here in Ontario Canada where a winning ticket was lost so no claim for most of the claiming period. However the lottery corp. knew where and when the ticket was issued. It was at a drug store which had cameras and it turned out the ticket was bought with a credit card. They tracked down the person who bought the ticket and gave her the winning jackpot. She had lost the ticket for good and IIRC had no idea she had won. Didn’t matter the evidence the lottery people had plus the credit card record was enough.