NY Lottery slot machines caught ripping off players

 A glimpse into what is America's biggest emerging scandal: how government knows very little about the highly predatory and addictive electronic gambling machines it profits from. In this story, a NY woman uses an iPhone to capture an unexplained drop in her total while playing a lottery slot machine at the Saratoga (NY) Casino and Raceway. "See, I think I got it on video that time," Cyndie Wade-Wood can be heard saying on the recording. The machine's maximum bet was two dollars, but her balance suddenly drops more than 19 dollars from $54.80 to $35.20. A few days later, Wade-Wood brought the video to management of the Casino who at first told her she shouldn't be videotaping. And then they told her that the machines "self correct." Wade-Wood doesn't buy it because she captured another malfunction several days later. The best quote from the story: "Our machine manufacturers have technicians on-site 24 hours a day and their sole responsibility is to check the machines, to run diagnostic checks on them to make sure that they're always functioning properly," said Rita Cox, vice president of Saratoga Casino. The SLOT MANUFACTURERS are "responsible" to make sure their OWN gambling machines aren't rigged. That's like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank.