election_title: "BV2263 — Over 50%: single-winner STAR, a candidate with every point on every ballot"

election_description: |-
  Live on BetterVoting (BV2263, election xw23m9).
  Results: https://bettervoting.com/xw23m9/results
  BV's STAR tally agrees with LH: winner A, scores 15 / 1 / 0, runoff 3-0,
  nAbstentions 0, nTallyVotes 3, tieBreakType "none" (no rung consulted).

bv_test_id: BV2263
bv_election_id: xw23m9
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/xw23m9/results

scenario_description: |-
  The ceiling case, and the control for reading every other STAR result: what a
  landslide looks like when it is as large as a landslide can get.

  Three voters, three candidates. A is scored 5 by all three; one voter gives B
  a single point; nobody scores C at all.
    - Scoring round: A = 15 of a possible 15 (100% of the maximum, average 5.0),
      B = 1, C = 0. A and B advance.
    - Automatic runoff: all three ballots prefer A. A 3, B 0, Equal Support 0.
  A wins on every denominator there is — 100% of the maximum score, 100% of the
  ballots, 100% of the voters with a preference between the finalists.

  Two things this case is here to show, both easier to see at the ceiling than
  in a close race:
    1. STAR does not stop early. Even a unanimous max-score candidate is put
       through the automatic runoff; there is no "wins outright in round 1"
       shortcut the way a majority of first choices ends an RCV-IRV count in
       its first round. The scoring round chooses finalists, never the winner.
    2. "Over 50%" is three different questions. Score share, ballot share and
       decided-voter share coincide here and only here; they come apart as soon
       as a ballot rates the two finalists equally.

  The multi-seat twin is BV1815 (02_STAR_Bloc), whose three ballots hand A 12 of
  15 and still buy exactly one seat: the second goes to C on 2 points, after a
  runoff nobody wins. Read the pair together — 02_STAR_Bloc/01_Learn/over_50_percent.md.

voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1
ballots: |-
  A,B,C
  5,0,0
  5,1,0
  5,0,0

expected_winners:
  - A

# file: bv2263_xw23m9_over_50_percent.yaml