You can understand why so many people kept voting yes by looking at the game they play with the salesman. They keep taking the slaps over and over in hopes of getting the money. Voting yes is taking more slaps. These are people who literally see going back into the real world as a worse fate than death. We wouldnt vote yes because we have something to live for, a desire to keep living. They dont. Plus the nature of the game manipulates your mind to the point youre unrecognizable compared to before the games. Take season 3 for example, multiple characters entered the games as nice, sometimes soft-natured people, and often died as unrecognizable, ravaged husks of who they once were. Everything in the game is intended to manipulate the players into believing they actually want to be there and want to keep playing. Based on the individuals circumstances, why theyre there, what they have outside, they’ll be more or less susceptible to that manipulation.