[Atrocities]

Ever wonder what they mean by "validating" the numbers? What they mean by that is that they already know what numbers are going to win, via a computer generated algorythm designed to drive up the amount of money people pay each week to win the jack pot. (IE if you win a million dollar Jackpot every week less and less people are going to play. But if the jack pot is 11 million, well then people feel lucky and buy more tickets.)

The numbers do not change after they have been chosen. Knownone othe than the Lottory offical knows the number that is going to win before the balls are dropped. The balls are weighted in such a way that only the numbers that have been chosen will come up. They cannot, or at least could not, determine the way the chosen balls would be chosen, but they knew which balls would be chosen over all.

When they validate the numbers, they are doing two things, one verifying that the balls have not been tampered with, and verifying that the number the computer chose to win was the number that came up.

Now on rare occations the computer has determined that the number it chose had already be bought so they changed the number to drive up the jack pot.

Lottery winers do not get all the money at one time. The state keeps the money and draws interest off the money. The lottery winner does not get interest on the money they have won. In fact, they pay a higher tax rate on the money than someone like bill gates would pay on an equal amount. It really is a sick industry that we are talking about here.

It may pay to win the lottery but it never pays what you win.