====================================================================== SOURCE FILE: lunch_choose_one_dead_tie.yaml TABULATED FILE: lunch_choose_one_dead_tie_tabulated.txt ====================================================================== bv_test_id: BV2257 bv_election_id: q2rkfm bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/q2rkfm/results election_title: "Team lunch on a choose-one ballot — a dead tie (BV2257, q2rkfm)" scenario_description: |- Five coworkers, three lunches, and the old ballot: mark one box. Sushi 2 · Tacos 2 · Pizza 1 — and that is the entire count. Nothing on these ballots can separate Sushi from Tacos, so the pre-published lot order decides. The Pizza-fan is the one voter who could have broken the tie, and a choose-one ballot gave them no way to say so. Same five people, same opinions, on a 5-star ballot: 01_STAR/02_Examples/cases/bv2184_fyy886_lunch_vote.yaml — where STAR elects Pizza, the compromise everyone is happy with. TIEBREAK — this case is NOT deterministic, on purpose. LH resolves the 2-2 tie with the pre-published lot order below and elects Sushi. BetterVoting resolves it at RANDOM (its frozen export records tieBreakType: "random"); the live run happened to land on Sushi too, but a re-run could just as well say Tacos. That is the honest state of a tied choose-one election, not an engine disagreement. Live results (BV2257): https://bettervoting.com/q2rkfm/results Lesson: 06_Other/Plurality/README.md voting_method: Plurality num_winners: 1 lot_numbers: [Sushi, Tacos, Pizza] # the ballots can't break the tie — the lot does ballots: |- Sushi,Tacos,Pizza 1, 0, 0 # Sushi-lover 1, 0, 0 # Sushi-lover 0, 1, 0 # Taco-lover 0, 1, 0 # Taco-lover 0, 0, 1 # Pizza-fan expected_winners: - Sushi # file: lunch_choose_one_dead_tie.yaml ====================================================================== TABULATION RESULTS ====================================================================== --- Choose-One / Plurality Voting Method (single winner) --- Tabulating 5 ballots. Sushi Tacos Pizza Sushi-lover X - - Sushi-lover X - - Taco-lover - X - Taco-lover - X - Pizza-fan - - X Count the marks: Sushi 2 · Tacos 2 · Pizza 1 A 2-way tie for first: Sushi, Tacos — 2 mark(s) each. Counting the marks is all a choose-one ballot can do, so the ballots cannot break it; the pre-published lot order decides: ['Sushi', 'Tacos', 'Pizza']. [Lot-decided tie — rare] ⚠ The result here was set by lot, not by the votes. Winner — Choose-One / Plurality Voting Method (single winner) Sushi (2 of 5 marks, by lot)