How are second-chance drawings conducted?
The Internet drawings are held in our main office in Pueblo. Present at each drawing are conducted by a Lottery Security Investigator, an independent auditor, a citizen witness, and our drawing manager. Each entry is assigned a unique number when it is entered into the database on our host site. The day of the drawing, the entries are downloaded from our host site to 2 CDs (1 primary and 1 backup). The citizen witness uses a random number generator that has the total number of entries as its parameters to select the drawing winner and minimum of 10 alternates. The winning entry number and alternates are entered into a program that extracts the winner’s information from the host site and also the primary CD to ensure the information matches. All of our drawings are public events. The only thing we ask is if someone plans to attend they let us know in advance to allow our front desk and drawing manager to be expecting them.
