How do when know that the Powerball and state lottos are not rigged?

Question

I live in Indiana and nobody has won the lotto in forever. Several times the lotto has been bigger than the Powerball with over 10 times the likelihood of winning than the Powerball lottery itself. Surely they can keep track of all the numbers out there and somehow rig the machine to not pick those numbers or to pick the numbers that certain individual related to the inside have. What kind of controls if any are in place to protect those of us who play? Is it possible mafia and or corrupt individual's are taking advantage? Any information or respectful opinions will be appreciated.

lil dark zero, lotto is short for lottery and is what our state lottery is called (Hossier Lotto).

aladdinwa, by not question nor fighting corruption is just how we can be taken advantage of on a daily basis. For example war profiteering is going on like crazy over in Iraq. In a 60 billion dollar audit they found over 10 billion of it totally and completely unaccounted for. That is your money and mine. Tax payers get raped all the time by pork barrel politics and what is done about it? It's about all we can do just to keep it shored up to a some degree. So in light of all this let me ask you, if we are getting taken advantage of almost in an in your face way what's to stop those in control of such lotteries from taken gross advantage of the players for their own personal gain?

HartleyBaldwin, commissions and accountants are not free from the influence of corruption either. As for making a lot of money being a reason they would not cheap I beg to differ. Greed sometimes grows in correspondence with the money you have access to.

Answer 1

It is in the best interest of the lottery to have a big winner. Big winners bring big publicity, which increases sales.

Remember also that Indiana is only a single state. Powerball is played in 29 states (including Indiana).

There just aren't as many people buying the Indiana tickets as Powerball tickets. Even though the odds may be 10 times better on the Indiana lotto, there probably 100 times as many people buying Powerball.

Answer 2

Can you be absolutely sure? No, but here are two reasons why I think you can be fairly confident in its legitimacy:

1) There are lottery commissions and accounting overseers - also I'm sure you could get the names of all winners/numbers and all records regarding the lottery if you truly wanted and investigate the matter yourself.

2) Lotteries are a big business. It's in their interest to be a fair game because they make some much money.

I hope this helps.
Have a good day.


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The point is that I can't prove to you (nor can anyone) that a lottery is not rigged - you can't prove a negative.

If you are still truly concerned, launch your own investigation - That is the only way you will be satisfied.

Have a good day.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I don't know all of the details, but i can tell you that anyone affiliated with the lotter commision is not eligible to play the lottery. For instance, if I worked for the lottery commision and you were my brother, you could win, but i couldn't. Even if I wanted my brother to win, there's no way that it can be rigged because they use a very strictly guarded set of balls to draw the numbers with. The outcome is completely random everytime. So to answer your question, no I don't think it is rigged.

Answer 5

If McDonald's Monopoly scandal came to light, what makes you think that a State Government could keep something like that covered up?

Answer 6

whats a lotto??