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Oregon lottery - ensuring fair and honest games
Oregon State Police detectives are responsible for making sure that every Oregon Lottery game played and every ticket sold has a fair and equal chance of being a winner. For example, detectives oversee and are present at all drawings. The Oregon Lottery's random number generator is tested and certified by an external lab and the Oregon State Police.
Scratch-it tickets are subjected to a battery of tests and security procedures, from game concept development through printing production to Lottery warehouse delivery.
To guarantee these tickets can't be compromised in any way, special inks, chemicals, and papers are used, as are computerized bar-coding systems that enable the verification and validation of each ticket. As a result of these security measures, altered or forged tickets can be detected before payment is made. These systems also have been instrumental in identifying stolen tickets and, in two different cases, have led to the arrests of murder suspects.
Equally stringent levels of integrity testing are applied to the Video Lottery games to ensure that every "card" is dealt from an honest "deck." In addition to investigating the manufacturers and retailer establishments, the Video Lottery terminals are under constant supervision. The computer chips for each terminal are inspected at four different points before they are installed, and each terminal is monitored 24 hours per day by a central computer system which tracks all transactions and interactions with the equipment.
Last but not least, the Oregon State Police makes sure that all Oregon Lottery facilities - and the equipment, inventory, and staff they house - are in a secure environment that is protected against unauthorized entry or access. Surveillance cameras, key-pad entry locks, intruder alert devices, and computer system safeguards are all part of the security regimen. And of course, there are the Oregon State Police troopers themselves: They are on-site and ready to respond to any breach of security.
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