Can the current sales stop time of sports lottery and welfare lottery and the current lottery drawing time be seamlessly connected? Why?
It can be linked seamlessly, but lottery agencies dare not and cannot, because they have very important things to do during this period.
1. The lottery will be drawn as soon as the sales stop. Theoretically, there is no difficulty.
The lottery is not directly related to the sales. Let alone the lottery will be drawn immediately after the sale is over, it can be done even before the sale is over. Lottery draw.
However, if a certain lottery ticket sales ends at 8:00, but the winning numbers are already generated at 7:50, do you dare to buy such a lottery ticket? Wouldn't you question it? Anyway, if there was such a lottery, I would not buy it, and I would definitely suspect that there is something wrong with it.
So, in theory, there is no difficulty in drawing prizes as soon as sales stop, and it is completely achievable, but why don’t lottery agencies do this?
2. From the cessation of sales to the drawing of prizes, what exactly are lottery agencies doing?
From the cessation of lottery sales to the draw, an important task for lottery agencies is to store sales data separately.
National joint sales methods, such as the sales data of each issue of Shuangseqiu, must be stored in at least three places, and there are multiple storage forms in each place.
The first place: provincial lottery agencies. After provincial institutions complete the current sales, they must store the data on non-rewritable optical discs and computers that are physically isolated from the Internet. At the same time, the data must also be passed to the national lottery agency.
The second place: the National Lottery Agency. After the national lottery agency receives all provincial data, it must store the data on non-rewritable optical discs and computers that are physically isolated from the Internet. At the same time, the data must be given to the notary agency that supervises the lottery draw.
The third place: the notary agency that supervises the lottery draw. The notary agency must store the data on a non-rewritable optical disc and a computer that is physically isolated from the Internet.
After the lottery results come out, provincial lottery agencies, national lottery agencies, and notary agencies must simultaneously retrieve their respective data on winnings, and then verify each other to ensure that all results are consistent and that each data is consistent to prove it. The sales data is safe and the winning data is correct.
The reason for this is to prevent sales data from being stored in only one place, which is easily tampered with and difficult to discover. For example, there was a hacker in Shenzhen who took advantage of his job to tamper with Shenzhen's sales data after the lottery was drawn, and forged the first prize information. However, because the winning data of the Shenzhen organization was inconsistent with that of the national organization and the winning data of the notary office, it was quickly discovered and arrested.
You can imagine that if there is only one copy of this data, only in Shenzhen, then after hackers tamper with the data, they can forge lottery tickets based on the tampered data and receive the prize openly. Because there is no evidence to prove that this database has been tampered with, the consequences are as terrible as they are.
Writing optical discs, transferring storage, and transmitting data all take time to complete. So this time is essential.
3. There is a period of time between the suspension of sales and the draw of the lottery. This is the global lottery industry practice
I particularly hate using lottery tickets to smear the country’s image. For example, foreign lottery sales have stopped. As for the lottery, this is completely a rumor. Anyone who says this is either stupid or bad.
For Powerball lottery tickets sold across state lines in the United States, the lottery draw time is 22:59. The deadline for sales varies from state to state, but it is always 1-2 hours before the draw.
The American Mega Millions lottery has a deadline of 21:00 and a draw time of 23:00, with an interval of two hours.
For the EuroMillions lottery sold across Europe, the sales deadline is 20:00, and the draw time is at 21:30, with an interval of one and a half hours.
Now that there is the Internet and there are international students, if you don’t believe it, you can check or ask to see if this is the practice of the global lottery industry - all lottery games sold across regions must have a period of time to store data separately. Keep your data safe.
4. Prerequisites for seamless connection
Currently, all lottery games sold across regions require this time. But if you really want to achieve seamless connection, it is not impossible. I think it is almost as long as the following conditions are met.
1. Unified system. All lottery sales areas use the same sales system to break information transmission barriers.
2. Real-time transmission of sales data. Every time a lottery ticket is sold at the sales site, the data of this lottery ticket must be simultaneously transmitted to the databases of provincial agencies, national agencies, and notary offices.
3. Automatically disconnect from the Internet and burn CDs. After the sale ended, the database computers in the three locations immediately disconnected from the Internet and automatically burned all data into non-rewritable optical discs.
As long as you do these three points, you should be able to achieve seamless connection. However, considering special circumstances, such as severe weather, natural disasters, power outages, etc., the risk of this method is relatively high. Generally speaking, the safety risk of lottery draw immediately after sales is stopped is too great. The time in between can be shortened, but cannot be eliminated, especially for lottery tickets jointly sold across regions.