Re:Honestly ... (Score 1)

I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of insiders rigging lotteries.

I should think knowing all of those zillions of dollars are just sitting there would cause more people to decide to see if they could get away with it.

And not just rigging lotteries - games/contests will always have the risk of cheating. Several years ago I realized even church bingo games are a cheat. The "companies" that run these for the church can easily skim off because of the way the instant tickets are packaged. Instant-tickets, also called pull-tab tickets, are packaged in boxes in what appears to be random order and those boxes/cases are shrink wrapped and sent to bingo halls. But the order of the tickets is the same in every box. So, the organization running the local bingo games just needs to buy one case of tickets, unwrap them and count in to find the winning tickets, and remove them from the rest of the boxes. Don't blame the churches, they don't know about it. Blame the scamming companies that take advantage of the churches and cheat their bingo players out of the cash. So it goes with lotto - you have a much larger temptation and I'm sure people will continue to try.