Lottery ticket vending machine

A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:

• a housing;
• a ticket drawer column in the housing, the ticket drawer column comprising a plurality of ticket drawers, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold one or more packs of lottery tickets, each ticket drawer comprising a reflector;
• and
• a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each different ticket receipt position associated with and in alignment with a separate one of the ticket drawers, the ticket burster comprising a ticket drawer sensor, wherein for each ticket drawer, the ticket drawer sensor is configured to sense the reflector of that ticket drawer when the ticket burster is aligned with that ticket drawer.

A lottery ticket vending machine comprising:

• a housing;
• a lottery ticket drawer supported by the housing;
• a ticket burster supported by the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster comprising a ticket pack sensor, a ticket exit sensor, a barcode sensor, and a ticket drawer sensor;
• and
• a controller supported by the housing, the controller configured to receive data from the ticket pack sensor, the ticket exit sensor, the barcode sensor, and the ticket drawer sensor, the controller configured to, based on the data, determine a state of the ticket drawer and to cause an action to be taken responsive to determining the state of the ticket drawer.