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People were mostly nervous and impatient because if the persons name is picked from the black box they get stoned (People through rocks at the person picked and then the person dies) .

Answer:

They all seemed to go along with it, like a mob mentality.  The people in the town are just doing it to blindly follow tradtion.

Explanation:

The act of stoning someone to death in this lottery every year supposedly purges the town of the bad and allows for the good.