Photo by Kevin H.

If you tried to get tickets to watch next week’s presidential inauguration from the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, being a D.C. resident certainly wouldn’t help.

Today D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton hosted a drawing for the tickets in her office, but the numbers just weren’t very favorable to those who put their names in the proverbial hat: Norton said that her office had received over 4,000 requests for fewer than 200 tickets she has available.

Given the miserable odds—there’s a five percent chance you’ll get picked—Norton said today that she’s been asking her colleagues in the House to donate some tickets for D.C. residents. “Unlike other jurisdictions … my constituents have only one office to turn to for inauguration tickets,” said Norton in a recent letter.

Even if she does get some, you might be better off watching the inauguration from the National Mall: or passing yourself off as a resident of Wyoming or Vermont, both of which have fewer residents than we do but more congressional offices to hand out tickets.