DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER BASED LOTTERY PROCESSING SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF AMERICA VISA LOTTERY) sources: www.projectng.com
ABSTRACT

Description of a system and peripherals or devices in a computer system in which the operating of such devices is under control of the Central Processing Unit is termed on-line. Because of the efficiency and fast services, this project is equally emphasized on America Visa Lottery at creating a computer based lottery which allows entire to be sold over the phone, ATM, POS machine, E-mail or via kiosks in which participants are invited to choose at least one unique number from a defined range of numbers. The participants can be automated call answering system allowing the user to key in the number chosen by using the telephone keypad which record the identity or contact details of the participant. The project highlights the prospects, problems and suggested solution in developing and implementing an online computer based lottery processing system. The write-up will equally acquaint you with the internet technology that made way for on-line computer lottery based processing system platform in where you are allowed to purchased and fill in the application forms.

INTRODUCTION

Lottery system is a very wide field of study and can be classified in so many ways such as the USA Lottery system, kenlucky lottery system, India lottery system, and German Lottery system. But the study will be limited to the Visa Lottery, which is associated with the United States and the most commonest.

What is the Visa Lottery? The diversity Visa Lottery issues 55,000 visas each year by lottery, to nationals of countries considered under represented in the immigrant flow. Until 1965, our immigration system favoured immigrants who reflected the ethnic characteristics of our society Heigntened concerns about racism brought about by the system civil rights movement led to the scrapping of the system. Ironically, the current Visa Lottery system is a throwback to the earlier race-conscious system. It structures the immigrant admission system to discriminate among immigrant seeing countries in order to increase the number of immigrants from “underrepresented countries. The first Visa Lottery provision who adopted in 1986, with a set-aside of 10,000 “special Visas” for immigrants form countries “adversely affected” by the 1965 immigration act. Over these-fights of the 10,000- Visas went to immigrants form Ireland, Canada and the United Kingdom. They were adversely affect by the 1965. Act only in that residents from those countries first experienced a ceiling that had not affected them previously. In 1990, a new permanent lottery of 55,000 Visas per year was enacted, and a transitional system of 40,000 Visa per year (1992 to 1994) was specified of the 108,455 transitional lottery winners who entered the United State through fiscal year 1994, 84% were from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland or Canada. Natives of these countries had not been suffering form any discrimination in our past administration of our immigration policy. 1995 marketed the beginning of the permanent “diversity” lottery for 55,000 Visa per year. Unlike the transitional system, it is supposed to discriminate against countries that have large flows of immigrants already like Mexico and the Philippines. The Act was clearly worded, however, so that the lottery would remain open to the Irish. That is one of the major Read More

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