Things are never easy when it comes to change. It doesn’t matter if we talk about sports, guns or the lotteries, every time something new happens, there are those who have something against it. This time, we are talking about a change concerning the New Jersey State Lottery, which has started broadcasting its drawings over the Internet instead of using TV stations. When Genevieve Tappan, a person who has been playing the lottery for half of her 80 year long life, realized that she won’t be able to see the nightly draws on TV anymore, she just stopped purchasing lottery tickets. State lottery

“I like to see them pull it so they don’t have the chance to switch it,” Genevieve Tappan, the 80 year old inhabitant of East Orange, stated. “Older people don’t trust the system. We know what happens.”

As of last week, the New Jersey State Lottery is only broadcasting its drawings on a very popular social network website and on its own official website. There are many who welcome the change, but the number of people who don’t agree with it is also quite high.

Genevieve Tappan doesn’t have a computer, and none of her friends to either. The elderly woman said that neither she nor her friends will ever buy a single lottery ticket until the drawings will come back to state owned television. And it seems that the Lottery might yet hear their plea, and they might act upon it soon enough. Lotteries

It appears that the quality of the Internet live and recorded stream is good enough and certain TV stations can broadcast it. Jacquie Fiorito, a lottery spokesperson, said that the State Lottery is considering making Internet streams available for TV stations to broadcast. She said that lottery officials are already trying to come up with a way to make it happen.

It appears that the move to the Internet was done to save some money, and because there were far too few people actually watching the drawings on TV. Mega lottery

“We get 155,000 visitors a day on our website, and we were getting maybe 20,000 a week on NJN,” Jacquie Fiorito stated. “We just couldn’t justify a $1.2 million contract for less than 20,000 people a week watching. Our first priority was the integrity of the draw. We’re happy to say it has been without a glitch. It is still audited, people are still winning.”