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Can you please explain why you think voters have “given up?” We’ve seen a wave of women, people of color, and progressive candidates win office, and more will do so in November. Rational behavior in a winner-take-all binary system necessitates party affiliation and coalitions. Isn’t your attempt to denigrate these factions just pandering to voters you believe find their beliefs unpalatable in your district?

Is there good data on how many tickets get sold for drawings with huge jackpots? My understanding was that roughly a dollar of each $2 ticket fed the increased jackpot from drawing to drawing.

Where is the crossover point where multiple jackpot winners begins to become more likely?

Is there a psychological element to choosing numbers to reduce the likelihood that others split a jackpot with you? (Example - avoiding lower numbers that come up in birthdays, for example). Or are there so many quick pick tickets that chosen numbers are a drop in the bucket?