26-Oct-06. Lottery deceit? Lethbridge Herald, A1.

Ontario lottery officials said the province has gone to great lengths to prevent fraud, installing electronic equipment such as in-store ticket checkers, terminals that play music for winning tickets and investigating retailers who turn up as winners. A CBC Fifth Estate documentary, which aired Wednesday, found a disproportionate number of “insiders” in Ontario have won prizes of $50,000 or more since 1999. A statistical expert said it was virtually impossible to account for that by simple luck.