I occasionally see news stories of a robbery or burglary where the perpetrator cops some scratch tickets along with the other stuff.
with the lottery folks simply be able to void that batch of tickets? or, even more, use those tickets to catch him if he tries to cash in?
One of the first jobs I had out of high-school was working at a gas station and we sold scratch-offs and I don’t recall that we kept track of the tickets at all.