反方论点是，有成百上千万美元花在选举上——在很多地方用的是公款——只是起到疏远和误导选民的作用。为什么抽奖更恶劣呢？

A counterargument is that millions of dollars are spent in elections - including public money in many places - in ways that alienate and misinform voters. Why is a lottery worse?

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新家长制拥护者所依赖的实验和调查证据中存在一个有误导的因素，即模型设计更倾向于选民决策而不是市场决策。

One underappreciated fact about the experimental and survey evidence relied on by advocates of the new paternalism is that it models voter decision-making far more closely than market decisions.

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然而不幸的是，有证据表明问题也不重要，部分原因是选民受到的误导常常很深。

Unfortunately, however, the evidence suggests that issues don't matter either, in part because voters are often deeply ill informed.

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