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Lottery Program


A lottery program is a software application for electronic computing machines, developed and used to collect data on common lottery tickets and accepted lottery bets, their accounting and registration or management of lottery equipment during the draw of the prize fund in a draw-based lottery. Lottery programs used in conducting lotteries must not contain hidden features that are not described or do not correspond to the features described in the software technical documentation, and whose use may result in a breach of confidentiality, availability, or integrity of processed information1.

  1. Federal Law No. 138-FZ dated November 11, 2003 "On Lotteries", as amended on July 18, 2019, Article 2, paragraph 19 // Official Gazette of the Russian Federation. 2003. No. 46. Item 4434. ↩