election_title: "Range / Score Voting on its own scale — 0–9, the canonical ballot"

scenario_description: |-
  The same simple score election as the 101 case, run on the scale Range voting
  actually uses. Five neighbours pick a tree for Main Street, grading each one
  from 0 (worst) to 9 (best); Range just SUMS the grades — highest total wins,
  no runoff and no elimination. Birch is nobody's absolute favourite and wins
  anyway on broad, strong support (39), ahead of Cedar (25) and Ash (19).

  The teaching value is the BALLOT, not the outcome. A STAR ballot is 0–5 and
  prints its rungs as stars, because the stars are STAR Voting's own house
  style. Canonical Range is 0–9 with plain circled digits — that is the sample
  ballot Wikipedia's score-voting article shows ("0 is worst; 9 is best") and
  the form rangevoting.org prints. Seeing the two side by side is the fastest
  way to learn that the star glyphs are branding rather than part of the count,
  and that a score ballot's resolution is a choice the election makes.

  Its twin on the 0–5 scale is range_101_c3_b5.yaml, kept deliberately so the
  same election can be read on STAR's scale and on Range's. Tabulated by the
  range engine (pref_voting score_voting, cross-checked against a hand sum),
  which reads the scale off the ballots themselves.

# Range is a non-EVC method (see 06_Other/README.md). It is tabulated by
# 06_Other/Range/Range_tabulation_engine/range_tabulation.py (pref_voting), NOT the
# STAR engine — the STAR CLI's 0–5 cap is a teaching guardrail on that path and
# does not apply here, which is what lets this case use its native 0–9 scale.
voting_method: Range
num_winners: 1

ballots: |-
  Ash,Birch,Cedar
  9,7,0   # Ash's camp — Birch a strong second
  9,6,1   # Ash's camp — Cedar barely registers
  0,8,9   # Cedar's camp — Birch close behind
  1,9,8   # Birch edges Cedar out
  0,9,7   # Birch clearly ahead of Cedar

expected_winners:
  - Birch

# file: range_101_0to9_c3_b5.yaml