This would be a good reason for having those automatic ticket readers in every place that sells those tickets — so you just put it under the scanner and it says if you’re a winner or not — no human intervention required ... :-)
I don’t know about your state, but I’ve seen them in other places before and that’s the way to go, I would say. It only takes a mere few seconds and you’ve got a “read” on the ticket and you know whether it’s a winner or not...
To me it’s a curious social phenomenon to observe...watching a lot of the same people come in every morning to buy a string of tickets while I get my coffee and breakfast. Most of the time I’ve noticed the clerk will return the non-winning ticket to the patron.