election_title: "Exercise 14 — The transfer machine: a book club buys two novels (STV)"
bv_test_id: BV2201
bv_election_id: tk776t
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/tk776t/results

scenario_description: |-
  A nine-member book club buys TWO novels by ranked ballot, counted with
  STV (the proportional cousin of RCV-IRV). Round 1: Austen has 5 first
  choices — over quota — and is elected; her surplus transfers, as
  fractions of the five ballots that elected her, to their next choice,
  Bronte. From there STV fills the second seat the way it always does —
  moving surpluses, and eliminating from the bottom if nobody is over
  the line — and Camus takes it. Seats: Austen + Camus. The drill
  follows one ballot through the whole journey — how much of it elected
  Austen, and where the remainder came to rest — to see how STV keeps a
  vote moving until it lands. How large that surplus is, and whether any
  elimination is needed, depends on which of the two published Droop
  quotas the count applies; the report below names the one it uses, and
  part (f) of the exercise works these same ballots both ways. Exercise:
  ex14_transfer_machine.md. Ballots and cast (novelists as candidates)
  are this repo's own.
  Live on BetterVoting (Test ID BV2201): https://bettervoting.com/tk776t
  — the vote page works, but BV's STV tabulator currently returns a
  server error on /results for this election, and for its fully-ranked
  probe twin BV2202 (bj8dfc, ex14_two_novels_fullranks.yaml) — a live BV
  bug, since DIAGNOSED: the count ends with Camus reaching quota as the
  sole remaining hopeful, and BV's IRV.ts redistributes his surplus over
  an empty candidate list ([].reduce with no initial value throws). Full
  bisection (BV2203-2205) and ready-to-file issue:
  06_Other/STV/bv_stv_sole_survivor_crash/. The seats above are the LH
  engine's; BV STV races whose endgame leaves a hopeful standing
  (ywckmg, kcf8vf, 39py93) compute fine.
voting_method: STV
num_winners: 2
ballots: |-
  5:Austen>Bronte>Camus>Dickens
  1:Bronte>Camus
  3:Camus>Dickens
expected_winners:
  - Austen
  - Camus

# file: ex14_two_novels.yaml