election_title: "Ranked Robin — a blank is ranked LAST (and rank numbers don't matter)"
scenario_description: |-
  A tiny teaching case for the question that trips up newcomers: on a Ranked Robin
  ballot, what happens to a candidate you leave BLANK — and does it matter whether
  you rank your worst choice "last" or just leave them blank?

  Answer: a blank is ranked below every candidate you DID rank, and it makes no
  difference to the count whether you write that candidate in the last tier or
  leave them blank. Ranked Robin reads only the PREFERENCE ORDER on each ballot,
  never the numeric rank label — so "5th vs 6th vs blank" is a distinction without
  a difference. Here Dan is ranked explicitly last by voter 1 and left blank by
  voters 2 and 3, yet he is treated identically (dead last) in every head-to-head:
  he loses all three pairwise contests 3–0. Ada beats everyone (the Condorcet
  winner), so Ada wins outright.
video_script: |-
  The anti-Borda point. Newcomers fear that ranking a candidate "5th" vs leaving
  them "blank/6th" changes the tally — as if rank NUMBERS were scored like Borda.
  They aren't. RR only uses each ballot's order to decide who beats whom pairwise.
  Dan explicit-last (voter 1) and Dan-blank (voters 2, 3) contribute identically.
voting_method: RankedRobin
num_winners: 1
lot_numbers: [Ada, Ben, Cara, Dan]
ballots: |-
  1:Ada>Ben>Cara>Dan
  1:Ada>Cara>Ben
  1:Ben>Ada>Cara
expected_winners:
  - Ada

# file: rr_blank_is_last_c4_b3.yaml