So... Is the State trying to weasel out on the payout? Was Jackpocket a legitimate retailer?
The State does admit Winners Corner is a licensed lottery retailer.
What do YOU think is going on here?
My state has an online lottery subscription system. If Texas does, that seems like it would be safer than this outfit.
“Sullivan says Winners Corner is operating within the bounds of that law.
“Winners Corner is a licensed lottery retailer ... We are not in the sole business of selling lottery tickets,” he added. “We are open to the public, so someone can go in and order an official lottery ticket directly in the store.”
Cheapskate govt doesn’t want to pay.
From when it happened:
Government’s way of not having to pay off, just like casino’s where you win big on a slot machine and they renege saying it had faulty software.
1. The state allowed this vendor to connect to their system and produce lottery tickets.
2. This woman bought one of those tickets.
3. She won.
4. The state’s dispute is with the vendor, not her. If it gets to the point where there is a legit dispute, then the state needs to terminate point #1. Failing that...
5. Profit! (Pay her)
I'm curious, though. What if the retailer got orders for 20 tickets from 20 different people and one of the tickets won the jackpot? Which one of the 20 was the winner? Why?
“”(April 2023 jackpot winner)””
Why must every article leave out pertinent information? What does April 2023 have to do with the current issue?
They need to pay up. They can pass future laws banning the process the winner used...but the winner did nothing illegal or unethical. They have to pay up!
I believe that the prize goes back into the pot, if not lawfully claimed, within the time allowed.
Sounds like the state has the big advantage in that they claim they don't have to pay for a winning ticket and now I have zero confidence in their lottery.
From the very prophetic book 1984:
They were talking about the Lottery. Winston looked back when he had gone thirty metres. They were still arguing, with vivid, passionate faces. The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made a living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons. In the absence of any real intercommunication between one part of Oceania and another, this was not difficult to arrange.
My guess is that it would not be hard to find a jury to rule in favor of this women- With interest and damages added on.
She bought the ticket illegally, so it is not valid.
Friggan lottery is as bad as the numbers racket the mob ran.
Matter of fact, you had more odds of collecting off the rackets than off the lottery.
“ Ticket courier services are not allowed under Texas law,” the agency wrote…”
That which is not specifically allowed is prohibited. Seems familiar…