As much as I can feel sorry for the guy, the bottom line is that if the ticket had been processed on time, the random number generator would have spat out a different set of numbers.
Once I had neglected to play the Plus, and my ticket had the number that would have been a $10K winner. I just happened to speak to a guy from WCLC who was in the store (not to complain, but to share the story), and he told me with how quickly the computers run through numbers, the difference between the clerk hitting "no" and "yes" would have given me a different number anyways.
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