election_title: "Exercise 11 — Recruit a spoiler: Axl enters the race"
bv_test_id: BV2198
bv_election_id: 93gjx6
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/93gjx6/results

scenario_description: |-
  The same nine voters as ex11_two_way_base.yaml, plus a third name on
  the ballot: Axl, a near-clone of Alba (recruited, in the exercise's
  story, by Brett's campaign to split Alba's vote). Alba's five-voter
  camp splits its FIRST choices 3-2 between the clones but scores both
  4-5; Brett's four voters are unchanged. Choose-One now elects BRETT
  (4 first choices vs 3 and 2) — the spoiler worked. STAR shrugs:
  scoring round Alba 23, Axl 22, Brett 20 — the CAMP keeps both finalist
  slots and the runoff is Alba vs Axl, which Alba wins 3-2 (Brett's four
  voters score the clones 0-0: Equal Support). RCV-IRV also survives
  this one: Axl is eliminated first and his votes come home to Alba —
  crowding by pure clones is the one spoiler variant IRV genuinely
  handles. The dirty trick only pays under Choose-One. (Axl shares
  Alba's initial ON PURPOSE — they are clones; the distinct-initials
  naming rule yields to the lesson here.) Exercise:
  ex11_recruit_a_spoiler.md. Ballots and cast are this repo's own.
  Live on BetterVoting (Test ID BV2198): https://bettervoting.com/93gjx6/results
  — four races: Choose-One falls for the clone (Brett); RCV-IRV, STAR,
  and Ranked Robin all hold (Alba).
voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1
ballots: |-
  Alba,Axl,Brett
  5,4,0 # 3 voters: Alba's camp, Alba first among the clones
  5,4,0
  5,4,0
  4,5,0 # 2 voters: Alba's camp, Axl first among the clones
  4,5,0
  0,0,5 # 4 voters: Brett's camp, unchanged
  0,0,5
  0,0,5
  0,0,5
expected_winners:
  - Alba

# file: ex11_spoiler_added.yaml