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to sell more tickets. It's happening just as the state is clearing out video poker machines -- replacing one electronic bandit with another.*Doug

Yeah! Man the State hates competition doesn't it Doug! Nothing like a State monopoly in action. Don't worry Doug. Those automatic lottary ticket machine have a tiny mini-cam pic in them like the banks have on ATM machines. This will really teach those kids who try to collect if they win.

Doug in the old days, Parents would send their kids down to the local grocery store to pick up a six pack and cigs and nobody even thought they would be addicted drunks and hook smokers in the future.

Don't you just love the Nanny State and remember it is for the children.

I heard today, the Weasel said we may have to raise taxes because his lotto is sucking wind.

I thought I had heard the machines did indeed require swiping an i.d....wrong I guess.

I wonder if someone will come up with an all-sin-tax-all-vice vending machine: get yer porn, condoms, cigs and lotto in one spot.

I'm really surprised at how many people are anti-lottery. It's a game of chance; if you are against it - you don't have to play it.

They've had the vending machines in place for more than a month here in Greensboro - they've had them in New York for years now.

My only real criticism of the NC Lottery is that they have far too few winning instant tickets. In NY - if you spent $5 on instant tickets - you were all but assured to find a winner - $1 or a free play. Here, you can spend $30 and walk away empty handed, feeling that the state could have at the VERY LEAST give you a reach around.