程阳：女子起诉佛州彩票索50万大奖

Ocala woman suing Florida Lottery

Updated: Friday, 21 May 2010, 9:08 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 21 May 2010, 9:08 PM EDT

OCALA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Annemarie Curcio of Ocala is a woman on a mission. Her husband of forty years died just four weeks ago of a heart attack, just three years after what they believed was hitting the jackpot, literally.

Curcio says, "It was Mother's Day and we were driving down the turnpike, and my husband said, 'Let's go get a lottery ticket as a Mother's Day gift!' And we did, and it turned out to be a half a million dollar ticket!"

Annemarie's attorney, Lawrence Walters, showed FOX 35 a copy of the $20 "Gold Rush" scratch-off ticket. The Curcio's attorney has the original locked away as evidence. Annemarie says they matched two of the winning numbers, and Orlando attorney Larry Walters confirms.

Walters tells us, "Apparently there is some sort of magical process the Lottery has to look at a number, maybe a serial number or something, to determine if it's supposed to be a winning ticket or not."

Curcio says, "We showed them the ticket, and they said it was a misprint! And we said, 'Uhhh....we had never heard that word before!"

A misprint -- something neither Annemarie Curcio nor her attorney understand.

Though we were unable to reach a Lottery representative tonight, Walters tells us they told him, they're not responsible for misprints. On the back of the tickets, it does say tickets and winners are subject to Lottery rules and state law.

But Walters says his client's lawsuit accuses the Florida Lottery of deceptive and unfair trade practices.

Walters says, "The ticket themselves don't warn consumers they may not have a winning ticket even if it's a match. The advertising the Lottery does doesn't inform people you may have a winning ticket but you may still not be a winner. And more importantly to the general public, they don't tell you that you may think you have a losing ticket, but it's really a winning ticket you threw away!"

 系统开发商并不像其他几方引人注目，但是其作用对彩票业的高效、稳定、安全、公正的影响，是如何高估都不过分的。目前国内开发商的重点还是功能性的，而且基本局限与最基本的投注、销售功能，而深层次的彩票管理信息系统目前还是空白，销售系统的安全性考虑不足，开发商还没有能够“自证清白”的有效手段，可以想象发行机构对社会的公平性承诺很打程度上依赖开发商，如果开发商不能“自证清白”，问题是显而易见的。

——程阳：从周销10亿说中国彩市

    环顾全球，即使在科技发达、人才荟萃的欧美，也基本没有彩票机构把软件开发、硬件研制、市场研究全包全揽的情形，都给服务商留足了充分竞争的空间。这首先是彩票公正性的需要，作为置身于发行销售机构之外的第三方的开发商存在本身，就是彩票公正性的重要保障手段之一。彩票机构与开发商之间，形成了相互约束、相互监督、互证清白的关系。

 在我国目前彩票管理体制下，彩票机构的技术人员年龄老化是不可回避的问题，彩票相关的IT技术日新月异，开发商的存在通过市场化的方式，带来不老的技术队伍，彩票机构的技术人员可以以其丰富的经验成为监督者，这样与开发商年轻的工程师们形成强强联合的技术团队，在技术人员的稳定性与流动性、技术的创新与经验的应用等多方面，找到最佳的平衡点。

——【程阳访谈】彩票安全：请开发商自证清白

【程阳访谈】彩票安全：请开发商自证清白

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