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Canadian resident Joel Ifergan is suing the Loto-Quebec Corp. because he didn’t win the jackpot of $27 million. It may sound like an argument we’d all like to make with lottery company’s, but Ifergan’s suit has some merit: The company’s fault machines were to blame.

He arrived at a local convenience store and purchased two lottery tickers at 8:59 p.m., thinking he’d just beaten the gun for the 9 p.m. drawing for $27 million. His first ticket (which was not a winner) printed before the cutoff, but a seven-second tech delay caused the second, winning ticket to print after 9 p.m.

Ifergan’s suit claims Loto-Quebec technicians admitted to delays of up to 10 seconds when making a ticket purchase, especially when jackpots are in the millions.

He also claims when the ticket was printed shouldn’t matter — he’d paid for the tickets before the cutoff time. “It’s not my fault their technology is slow,” said Ifergan.

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