I'll answer each of your questions within your message text:
I've been around a long time and I dont remember the polll. I guess all the people from Iowa have a lobby or something and jammed it through committee when the rest of us were out to lunch. LOL Yes, there were several discussions on this. I don't know if you were aound at that time or not, but there were in fact several of them, and if you're interested in researching things, all discussions are still online. When you say "the rest of us" were out to lunch, I don't think you should think that everyone shares your view, because your view was the minority view at the time. I take it that "LOL" in this case means that you are joking about some kind of "Iowa Lobby". It was a very serious discussion, and I take this topic seriously, so you won't see any "LOLs" from me on this. I purposely did not make all the decisions myself, specifically so I could avoid having people come to me years after things were setup, saying that the system was setup wrong. I believe that every system has compromises, but Lottery Post's is the best because it was created based on the consensus of experienced, serious lottery players.
As far as double weighting the results .. When you do an inquire on All States Triples over the last year and get back the answer as say Total 98. How would you know how many of those were from ILL and how many to double weight? Easily Copy the data into Excel and filter out the Illinois or Iowa results. Quite a simple proposition in Excel, and any lottery player who is not using Excel to analyze their numbers should seriously consider using it. I would use Excel for ANY custom analysis, not just your particular situation. You can't expect any software, whether it's Lottery Post or any other software package, to do everything for you. All good results require effort.
You mentioned that at least the Tri states are listed as I prefer and thats good. Using the same well founded logic that prompted that decision .....couldn't we also apply that to the results page each day for all states? ILL as well ...at least on the all states inquiries. As I menioned, Illinois and Iowa are two separate games, as opposed to Tri-State, which is one game. There is nothing special happening to only show Tri-State results once, since it is only one game. It's like saying "since New Jersey is only shown once, can't you show Illinois and Iowa as one game?" Apples and oranges.
If not ... it's really isn't that big a deal. This isn't Medical research or anything critical or lastingly meaningful to mankind. I can always go fishing. Ever go bass fishing in Minnesota? I highly recommend it. The Land of 10,000 Lakes, I think it's called. One of the most relaxing weeks I've ever spent.
question. Did we always have the "last digit sums" or as I called them originally "Short sums" in the features? Yes. Thanks Any time!