election_title: "FL 2026 poll — 2026 U.S. Senate special election"
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 U.S. Senate special election** — the seven-way U.S. Senate special-election field — the race the poll was built around. Two Democrats take both runoff slots, and **15 of the 22 tallied ballots score them equally**, so the runoff is decided by 7 voters out of 25 ballots cast.

  Scoring round: Nixon (DEM) 57 · Vindman (DEM) 47 · Moody (REP)* 37 · Gillespie (NPA) 23 · Rivera (REP) 16 · Gleason (REP) 8 · Perry (REP) 7.
  Automatic Runoff: Nixon (DEM) 6 vs Vindman (DEM) 1, with 15 of the
  22 tallied ballots showing Equal Support for both finalists.

  25 ballots were cast in the poll; 3 left this race blank (22 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: |-
  Moody (REP)*,Nixon (DEM),Vindman (DEM),Gillespie (NPA),Gleason (REP),Perry (REP),Rivera (REP)
  &,&,&,5,&,&,&   # b-d67ygqqb
  &,&,&,&,&,&,&   # b-7qr6fp6d
  &,5,&,&,&,&,&   # b-dh7xj93b
  &,5,5,&,&,&,&   # b-qkyw76rq
  5,&,&,&,&,&,&   # b-cqcfrhgf
  &,&,&,&,&,&,&   # b-6mwmcfmd
  &,&,&,&,&,&,5   # b-8kq29hv8
  0,5,5,4,0,0,0   # b-xfftm9yb
  0,5,5,3,0,0,0   # b-gyvqdrry
  0,0,0,0,0,0,0   # b-6ywyq88y
  &,5,3,0,0,0,0   # b-9v7q4dvt
  0,4,4,1,0,0,0   # b-6c2y3d3p
  5,&,&,&,&,&,&   # b-3xdd4ptb
  0,5,0,0,0,0,0   # b-9ry7jmwv
  5,0,0,0,0,0,0   # b-rqd88v3w
  0,5,4,1,0,0,0   # b-bk8xd8fw
  0,5,5,4,1,1,1   # b-8bfw9dyf
  0,&,5,&,&,&,&   # b-gffckf36
  5,0,0,0,0,0,5   # b-6hfy233k
  5,&,&,&,&,&,&   # b-ypm6vddm
  5,&,&,&,&,&,&   # b-pfvxtxmh
  2,5,4,3,2,1,0   # b-fhgbkw3x
  0,5,4,1,0,0,0   # b-mybbty26
  0,3,3,1,0,0,0   # b-xc3yfg8c
  5,0,0,0,5,5,5   # b-vjpmvx6c

expected_winners:
  - Nixon (DEM)

# file: bxj8pxc_senate.yaml