I know. Here in California, there used to be some pretext of chance. They would televise the ping pong balls coming out of the cage. Nowadays, the “drawings” are electronic. So the computer that comes up with the winning numbers already know which numbers have been picked.
I have a ‘sweepstakes’ type website. We use a random number picker. Input a series of numbers and the picker (computer) picks one. 1-5000, etc. That’s how everyone does it now. My marketing guy is in charge of that since he has no clue who the numbers belong to. We also do a background check on the winner to make sure they’re not related to anyone involved in the sweepstakes in any way.