Vogel: April Fool Doesn’t Describe Lottery Vendor
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“I should have dug a little deeper last August when I asked state lottery officials about how often big winning tickets are sold but never cashed. The data were available for ‘draw games’ (like the daily jackpot), but not for ‘instant games’ (the ‘scratchers’). Why was that?
Because maybe the winning scratch-off wasn’t sold, I was told, writing it off as a matter of a handful of tickets being pulled off shelves at the end of an instant game’s marketing run.
But now two class action lawsuits contend the lottery has been calculatedly ending some ‘scratch-off’ ticket sales early — before tickets with the biggest prizes were sold, or as one lawsuit alleges, ‘when the profitability of the game was statistically maximized.'”
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