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19 Post author: orthonormal 05 November 2012 01:23AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 05 November 2012 03:49:36PM 2 points [-]

There's far less incentive for the government to care about who wins a normal lottery than about who wins an election lottery. (And I've read that in third world countries, the lotteries often are rigged so that cronies of officials win them.)