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"Partisan" — the whole slate at 5, nobody else

Every candidate on your side gets a 5; every other row stays blank. A party-line vote, written in stars.

← One of thirteen voting styles. Every style is legal and counted; this page is what this one means, when it fits, and what it trades away.

A STAR ballot marked partisan-style: Andre, Carmen, and David all scored 5; Blake and Ella left blank, which counts as 0 for each.

What this ballot says

"My side's three — Andre, Carmen, David — full support. Nobody else." Equal 5s are allowed and honest: this voter refuses to rank teammates against each other, and the blanks put everyone outside the slate at 0.

When it fits

  • You support a team, not a person — a party slate, an endorsement list — and your genuine opinion is "any of mine over any of theirs."
  • Group endorsements: an organization can recommend this exact ballot without asking members to split hairs among friends.

The trade-off, honestly

Two edges, both by your own choice. If the runoff is your slate versus outside — the fight this ballot was built for — your full vote lands on your candidate, every time. But if two of your own 5s become the finalists, your ballot is Equal Support: you said "no preference between them," so the choice among your teammates is made by voters who did express one. Same on the other side — two blanks in the final means you've no say at all. Equal scores are never discarded (they helped decide who made the final); they just decline the last question.

This exact style in a real election

In the runnable style-gallery election, the partisan row is 5,5,0,0,0,5 — a three-candidate slate. Two of the slate's own 5s (Bianca and Frank) became the finalists, so this ballot sat the runoff out as Equal Support — precisely the "teammates in the final" edge case above, caught live in a six-candidate race.