election_title: "Exercise 13 — Where do you draw the line? The honest opinions (STAR)"
bv_test_id: BV2200
bv_election_id: qdtqf2
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/qdtqf2/results

scenario_description: |-
  The reference election for the approval-threshold exercise: nine voters'
  honest 0-5 opinions about Ash, Beck, and Cora — 3×(Ash 5, Beck 4),
  2×(Beck 5, Cora 3), 4×(Cora 5, Ash 3). On the full scores, STAR
  advances Ash (27) and Cora (26) and Cora wins the runoff 6-3; plain
  Score voting would say Ash. The exercise then converts these SAME
  opinions to Approval ballots under three defensible thresholds — and
  gets three different Approval winners: approve 3+ elects Ash (7 of 9),
  approve 4+ elects Beck (5), approve only 5s elects Cora (4). The
  instructions, not the opinions, pick the winner. Companion files:
  ex13_approve3.yaml / ex13_approve4.yaml / ex13_bullet.yaml. Exercise:
  ex13_draw_the_line.md. Ballots and cast are this repo's own.
  Live on BetterVoting (Test ID BV2200): https://bettervoting.com/qdtqf2/results
  — one election, four races (STAR + the three approval thresholds); BV
  agrees on all four winners.
voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1
ballots: |-
  Ash,Beck,Cora
  5,4,0 # 3 voters: Ash first, Beck a strong second
  5,4,0
  5,4,0
  0,5,3 # 2 voters: Beck first, Cora mild
  0,5,3
  3,0,5 # 4 voters: Cora first, Ash tolerable
  3,0,5
  3,0,5
  3,0,5
expected_winners:
  - Cora

# file: ex13_opinions.yaml