election_title: "Exercise 3 — One electorate, five verdicts (the snack vote)"
bv_test_id: BV2191
bv_election_id: ywqhq4
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/ywqhq4/results

scenario_description: |-
  Nine voters pick the office snack. Choose-One elects Apple (4 first
  choices) — who loses head-to-head to BOTH rivals (the Condorcet loser).
  RCV-IRV eliminates Cherry first (2 first choices) and elects Banana.
  Approval (approve = score 3+) gives Cherry 9 of 9. Score gives Cherry 34
  of a possible 45. STAR advances Cherry and Apple and Cherry wins the
  runoff 5-4. And Ranked Robin confirms Cherry as the Condorcet winner.
  One electorate, five different verdicts from five tabulations — the
  ballot-vs-method lesson of the exercise ex03_five_verdicts.md. Structure
  inspired by the worked comparisons in Brendan W. Sullivan, "An
  Introduction to the Math of Voting Methods" (2022), ch. 5; ballots and
  cast are this repo's own.
  Live on BetterVoting (Test ID BV2191): https://bettervoting.com/ywqhq4/results
  — one election, five races (Choose-One, RCV-IRV, Approval, STAR, Ranked
  Robin), all five verdicts live; BV agrees with LH on every race.
voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1
ballots: |-
  Apple,Banana,Cherry
  5,0,3 # 4 voters: Apple fans, Cherry a solid second
  5,0,3
  5,0,3
  5,0,3
  0,5,4 # 3 voters: Banana fans, Cherry nearly as good
  0,5,4
  0,5,4
  0,1,5 # 2 voters: Cherry fans, cool on both others
  0,1,5
expected_winners:
  - Cherry

# file: ex03_five_verdicts.yaml