The lottery can be rigged.
Hot Lotto fraud scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Lotto_fraud_scandal
Eddie Tipton and his brother Tommy Boyd Tipton were subsequently accused of rigging other lottery drawings, dating back as far as 2005
Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/22/news/iowa-lottery-sentencing/index.html
Tipton has agreed to pay about $2.2 million in restitution, including $1.1 million to the Colorado lottery, $644,000 to the Oklahoma lottery, $391,000 to the Wisconsin lottery and $30,000 to the Kansas lottery.
Yes,
That Indiana case was found only, because Orange Co IN is so backward, nobody goes there and everybody there knows everybody else.
So the store owner got suspicious when some stranger showed up and bought all the scratch up tickets! And when he realized that there was a winning ticket there, he alerted authorities!
I think, there is a lot more fraud in lotteries, which goes unreported.
I also heard that mafia/cartels like to buy the winning tickets and offer premium. So they can legitimize their earnings?!