election_title: "FL 2026 poll — 2026 FL Chief Financial Officer"
election_description: |-
  Live on BetterVoting: https://bettervoting.com/xj8pxc ·
  results: https://bettervoting.com/xj8pxc/results
  One of four STAR races in a public, open-to-anyone online poll of the 2026 Florida
  statewide ballot. Not our election — frozen here as a real-world STAR count.

bv_election_id: xj8pxc
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/xj8pxc/results

scenario_description: |-
  **2026 FL Chief Financial Officer** — the thinnest race — 18 of 25 ballots tallied, 7 abstentions. An unaffiliated candidate (NPA) leads the scoring round and wins the runoff 9-5.

  Scoring round: Smith (NPA) 37 · Collige (REP) 26 · Ingoglia (REP)* 23 · Gruters (REP) 21.
  Automatic Runoff: Smith (NPA) 9 vs Collige (REP) 5, with 4 of the
  18 tallied ballots showing Equal Support for both finalists.

  25 ballots were cast in the poll; 7 left this race blank (18 tallied).
  Markers: `&` = the BetterVoting `null` (candidate left unscored) — it tabulates as 0,
  and a ballot that is `&` all the way across is an abstention in this race.
  Party tags are the candidates' own ballot labels; `*` marks the incumbent.

  Frozen from the live poll on 2026-08-22 (the poll stays open to 2026-11-11, so the
  live page will keep moving — this file is the snapshot LH is checked against).

num_winners: 1
voting_method: STAR

ballots: |-
  Smith (NPA),Collige (REP),Gruters (REP),Ingoglia (REP)*
  5,&,&,&   # b-d67ygqqb
  &,&,&,&   # b-7qr6fp6d
  &,5,&,&   # b-dh7xj93b
  &,&,&,&   # b-qkyw76rq
  &,&,&,5   # b-cqcfrhgf
  &,&,&,&   # b-6mwmcfmd
  &,&,5,&   # b-8kq29hv8
  5,0,0,0   # b-xfftm9yb
  5,0,0,0   # b-gyvqdrry
  0,0,&,0   # b-6ywyq88y
  0,0,0,0   # b-9v7q4dvt
  5,0,0,0   # b-6c2y3d3p
  &,&,&,5   # b-3xdd4ptb
  0,0,0,0   # b-9ry7jmwv
  0,3,3,3   # b-rqd88v3w
  5,0,0,0   # b-bk8xd8fw
  5,1,1,0   # b-8bfw9dyf
  &,5,&,0   # b-gffckf36
  0,5,5,0   # b-6hfy233k
  &,&,&,5   # b-ypm6vddm
  &,&,&,&   # b-pfvxtxmh
  5,2,2,0   # b-fhgbkw3x
  1,0,0,0   # b-mybbty26
  1,0,0,0   # b-xc3yfg8c
  0,5,5,5   # b-vjpmvx6c

expected_winners:
  - Smith (NPA)

# file: bxj8pxc_cfo.yaml