Every application had a date of birth on it. All the state would have had to do is flag those applications and disqualify them. Of course we don't know when in the process the error was discovered. The draw might have been over by that time. But still, we're expected to know the regs and it was there, very plain and clear.
that is true if all applications were electronic. going through paper apps filled out by hand would take forever.
only remedy I can see are go through and pull all group apps/tags that drew on the first go-round, put them into the second drawing you spoke of and make them available to all that are left. postpone the draw if need be to make it happen. no reason to exclude them all together for the screw up.
