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Here is why: A customer attempts to purchase an age-regulated commodity. We ask for ID and they produce a New York driver’s license. We look to see if the photo matches the customer. We check the birth date. If the person is “of age,” we scan the bar code on the lottery machine, and the transaction is completed. After the transaction, we print out the scanned (ID) information from the lottery machine, and staple a register receipt from that customer’s purchase. These are our hard copies, which serve as evidence that we checked the ID, the type of transaction, the time and the amount, which are directly associated to the sale. If there are any questions later, we can prove we did “due diligence.”