election_title: "Exercise 6 — Bullet voting backfires: the strategic ballots"
bv_test_id: BV2194
bv_election_id: 7f4f7q
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/7f4f7q/results

scenario_description: |-
  The same nine voters as ex06_bullet_honest.yaml, but Ari's four fans now
  bullet vote — Ari 5, Bree 0, Cash 0 — hoping to drag Ari past the
  compromise candidate. It works halfway: Bree crashes from 25 points to
  13 and out of the runoff, and Ari (20) becomes a finalist. But the
  runoff Ari inherits is against Cash (21) — and Ari loses it 5-4, because
  zeroing Bree never manufactured any Ari-over-Cash preferences. The
  bullet voters demoted their sure second choice and elected their
  nightmare. STAR's runoff is exactly the feature that makes this gamble
  costly. Exercise: ex06_bullet_backfire.md. Ballots and cast are this
  repo's own.
  Live on BetterVoting (Test ID BV2194): https://bettervoting.com/7f4f7q/results
  — with RCV-IRV and Ranked Robin races: on the bullet ballots all three
  methods elect Cash.
voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1
ballots: |-
  Ari,Bree,Cash
  5,0,0 # Ari fan 1 of 4 — BULLET: Bree zeroed (honest was 5,3,0)
  5,0,0 # Ari fan 2 of 4 — BULLET: Bree zeroed
  5,0,0 # Ari fan 3 of 4 — BULLET: Bree zeroed
  5,0,0 # Ari fan 4 of 4 — BULLET: Bree zeroed
  0,2,5 # Cash fan 1 of 4 — unchanged
  0,2,5 # Cash fan 2 of 4 — unchanged
  0,2,5 # Cash fan 3 of 4 — unchanged
  0,2,5 # Cash fan 4 of 4 — unchanged
  0,5,1 # The lone Bree fan — unchanged, and she decides the runoff
expected_winners:
  - Cash

# file: ex06_bullet_backfire.yaml