Bv129 1086 method name note

The result is correct — this is only the exported method name, but it's a slippery one. The method is stored as plain "STAR" in two places, with the seat count in a separate field:

Election.races[0].voting_method : "STAR"     num_winners : 2
Results[0].votingMethod         : "STAR"

So "Bloc STAR" is never written down — it's only implied by STAR ballot + more than one seat. Two consequences:

  • The name alone is ambiguous. votingMethod: "STAR" is single-winner STAR at 1 seat and Bloc STAR at 2. A consumer that keys on the method name without also reading num_winners will mistabulate.
  • Editing one field silently changes the method. Bump num_winners between 1 and 2 without touching votingMethod, and the election flips between STAR and Bloc STAR with nothing in the name to flag it.

I don't think the stored value is necessarily wrong, though: votingMethod names the ballot / tabulation family (STAR = 0–5 scores) and num_winners names the seats, so "Bloc STAR" is arguably a derived label. If so, the tightest fix is display-side: derive and show "Bloc STAR" (STAR + more than one seat) wherever the method is named, rather than changing the stored field.

Worked reference — ballots, the exact export lines, and a strict engine that refuses voting_method: STAR + num_winners: 2 rather than guessing: https://github.com/masiarek/YAML/blob/master/02_STAR_Bloc/02_Examples/bv129_score_tiebreak_bloc.md