Oklahoma City, OK(AP/Saturday) Saturday's BigLotto™ drawing has sparked controversy and accusations from Mrs. Floreen Hasker, 58 of Green Biscuit, a suburb of Oklahoma City.
"Until they get those balls looked at, count me out" she declared in an op/ed piece in Green Biscuit's local newspaper.
"If I could buy a ticket with just the number eleven on it, well I'd be a wealthy woman" she said in a telephone interview on Friday, "and I'm not a wealthy woman".
Hasker believes that the number eleven comes up with "alarming regularity" and is the main reason she is calling for a full and thorough investigation.
Oklahoma's State Lottery Comissioner, Mañuel Cipequa replied to Hasker in an op/ed piece due for publication tomorrow.
"There is no statistical evidence that the number eleven is a winning number in any disproportional manner. Furthermore there is no evidence that five and eight get 'jew-ed' as Mrs. Hasker has claimed in previous communications."
In 1997 Mrs. Hasker suggested that the number system be scrapped entirely and replaced with a letter based system so that winning "words would be drawn instead of numbers. That would really help our schools. Maybe words like 'booger' would come up and Jay Leno would do a little bit about it on his show".
Comissioner Cipequa declined to comment on that subject, but said the state had no plans to change the operation of the state's lottery.
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