====================================================================== SOURCE FILE: 08_c6_b29_quota-circus-pr-2-seats.yaml TABULATED FILE: 08_c6_b29_quota-circus-pr-2-seats_tabulated.txt ====================================================================== election_title: Quota Circus — STAR-PR with cliff, slate and gentle ballots (6 cand, 2 seats) bv_test_id: BV2246 bv_election_id: qdh9qp bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/qdh9qp/results scenario_description: |- Proportional STAR meets the style circus: a north side voting in cliffs, slates and bullets (0s and 5s, nothing between) against a south side of gentle souls and sliver voters (3-5 only, zeros never) - plus floaters of pure noise. Two seats, six candidates. The question quota allocation has to answer: when one camp's ballots SHOUT (max scores) and the other camp's ballots hum (inflated 3-4s everywhere), whose quota fills first, and what's left to decide the second seat after the reweighting? The electorate (29 ballots, all individual rows): - north side: 17 voters (7 cliff35, 6 bullet, 4 slate) - south side: 8 voters (4 gentle, 3 cliff34, 1 nuanced) - floaters: 4 voters (2 chaos, 1 anyone_but, 1 flat) Ballot styles in play (taxonomy: 01_STAR/01_Learn/voting_styles/README.md): - cliff35: cliff ballot: 0 or 3-5, nothing in between - cliff34: sliver ballot: 0 or 3-4 only - bullet: choose-one transplant: favorite 5, rest 0/blank - slate: partisan slate: equal 5s for the in-group, 0 outside - chaos: pure noise (fuzzing voter) - gentle: gentle soul: everything squeezed into 3-5, no zeros - anyone_but: 5 for everyone except the villain (0) - nuanced: full 0-5 range, honest gaps, ties allowed - flat: flat-liner: same score for everyone What the frozen seed produced: Seats: Amir, Bree. north side seats 2 of its 2-name slate; south side seats 0 of its 2-name slate. Final seat round (reweighted totals): Bree 39.25 vs Cato 36.94. RANDOM-BUT-HUMAN, reproducible: generated by 06_Other/ballot_style_lab/generate_ballot_styles.py (scenario 'quota_circus', seed 34) - utilities sampled from the faction model above, then rendered through each voter's ballot style. Per 07_Concepts/topics/simulate_utilities_not_ballots.md this is the 'stress-test the tabulator' job (with human-shaped renderings), not a method-welfare comparison. Regenerate byte-identically: python generate_ballot_styles.py --emit quota_circus voting_method: allocated num_winners: 2 ballots: |- Amir, Bree, Cato, Della, Enzo, Faye 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 0 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 -, 5, -, -, -, - 5, 5, 0, 0, 5, 0 1, 2, 2, 0, 2, 4 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 4 1, 5, 2, 5, 3, 1 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 0 4, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4 5, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 3 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 0 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 0, 1, 5, 3, 0, 3 5, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0 -, 5, -, -, -, - 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 3, 3, 5, 4, 3, 3 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 5, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 expected_winners: - Amir - Bree # file: 08_c6_b29_quota-circus-pr-2-seats.yaml ====================================================================== TABULATION RESULTS ====================================================================== === Quota Circus — STAR-PR with cliff, slate and gentle ballots (6 cand, 2 seats) === Proportional STAR meets the style circus: a north side voting in cliffs, slates and bullets (0s and 5s, nothing between) against a south side of gentle souls and sliver voters (3-5 only, zeros never) - plus floaters of pure noise. Two seats, six candidates. The question quota allocation has to answer: when one camp's ballots SHOUT (max scores) and the other camp's ballots hum (inflated 3-4s everywhere), whose quota fills first, and what's left to decide the second seat after the reweighting? The electorate (29 ballots, all individual rows): - north side: 17 voters (7 cliff35, 6 bullet, 4 slate) - south side: 8 voters (4 gentle, 3 cliff34, 1 nuanced) - floaters: 4 voters (2 chaos, 1 anyone_but, 1 flat) Ballot styles in play (taxonomy: 01_STAR/01_Learn/voting_styles/README.md): - cliff35: cliff ballot: 0 or 3-5, nothing in between - cliff34: sliver ballot: 0 or 3-4 only - bullet: choose-one transplant: favorite 5, rest 0/blank - slate: partisan slate: equal 5s for the in-group, 0 outside - chaos: pure noise (fuzzing voter) - gentle: gentle soul: everything squeezed into 3-5, no zeros - anyone_but: 5 for everyone except the villain (0) - nuanced: full 0-5 range, honest gaps, ties allowed - flat: flat-liner: same score for everyone What the frozen seed produced: Seats: Amir, Bree. north side seats 2 of its 2-name slate; south side seats 0 of its 2-name slate. Final seat round (reweighted totals): Bree 39.25 vs Cato 36.94. RANDOM-BUT-HUMAN, reproducible: generated by 06_Other/ballot_style_lab/generate_ballot_styles.py (scenario 'quota_circus', seed 34) - utilities sampled from the faction model above, then rendered through each voter's ballot style. Per 07_Concepts/topics/simulate_utilities_not_ballots.md this is the 'stress-test the tabulator' job (with human-shaped renderings), not a method-welfare comparison. Regenerate byte-identically: python generate_ballot_styles.py --emit quota_circus --- Preference Matrix --- Head-to-head / pairwise comparison Legend: For - Equal Support - Against Informational only — not part of the 2-winner count below, so no Top-2 finalists are marked. | Amir | Bree | Cato | Della | Enzo | Faye | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amir > | --- | 8 - 14 - 7 |14 - 6 - 9 |15 - 6 - 8 |15 - 12 - 2 |16 - 10 - 3 | Bree > | 7 - 14 - 8 | --- |14 - 7 - 8 |14 - 8 - 7 |17 - 12 - 0 |16 - 10 - 3 | Cato > | 9 - 6 - 14 | 8 - 7 - 14 | --- | 4 - 24 - 1 | 8 - 19 - 2 | 9 - 19 - 1 | Della > | 8 - 6 - 15 | 7 - 8 - 14 | 1 - 24 - 4 | --- | 9 - 18 - 2 | 8 - 20 - 1 | Enzo > | 2 - 12 - 15 | 0 - 12 - 17 | 2 - 19 - 8 | 2 - 18 - 9 | --- | 3 - 21 - 5 | Faye > | 3 - 10 - 16 | 3 - 10 - 16 | 1 - 19 - 9 | 1 - 20 - 8 | 5 - 21 - 3 | --- | [Condorcet Winner] Condorcet Winner: Amir — matches the STAR winner [Condorcet Loser] Condorcet Loser: Enzo — loses every head-to-head matchup --- Allocated Score Voting Method (2 winners) --- [Allocated Score Voting] Tabulating 29 ballots to fill 2 seats. Count × Amir,Bree,Cato,Della,Enzo,Faye 6 × 5, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 4 × 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 3 × 5, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0 2 × 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 0 2 × -, 5, -, -, -, - 1 × 5, 5, 0, 0, 5, 0 1 × 1, 2, 2, 0, 2, 4 1 × 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 4 1 × 1, 5, 2, 5, 3, 1 1 × 4, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4 1 × 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 3 1 × 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 0 1 × 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0 1 × 0, 1, 5, 3, 0, 3 1 × 3, 3, 5, 4, 3, 3 1 × 5, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4 1 × 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ('-' = left blank / abstained; '0' = scored zero — both count as 0 stars.) [Score Distribution] (how many ballots gave each star rating) Score Candidate 5 4 3 2 1 0 Abs | Total Avg all Avg rated Amir 16 1 2 0 2 6 2 | 92 3.2 3.4 Bree 12 6 1 1 1 8 0 | 90 3.1 3.1 Cato 6 3 0 2 0 16 2 | 46 1.6 1.7 Della 4 5 1 0 0 17 2 | 43 1.5 1.6 Enzo 2 0 5 1 0 19 2 | 27 0.9 1.0 Faye 0 4 3 0 1 19 2 | 26 0.9 1.0 Avg all = Total / all ballots — a blank counts as 0, so this is the Total the Scoring Round ranks on, per ballot. Avg rated = Total / the ballots that scored this candidate (Abs excluded) — support among voters who had an opinion. Hare quota is 29/2. [Allocated Score Voting: Round 1] The highest-scoring candidate wins a seat. Amir -- 92 -- First place Bree -- 90 Cato -- 46 Della -- 43 Enzo -- 27 Faye -- 26 Amir wins a seat. [Allocated Score Voting: Round 1: Ballot allocation round] Allocating 14+1/2 ballots. [Allocated Score Voting: Round 1: Ballot allocation round: Round 1] Allocating 16 ballots at score 5. This allocation overfills the quota. Returning fractional surplus. Allocating only 90.62% of these ballots. Keeping these ballots, but multiplying their weights by 3/32. 16 ballots reweighted from 1 to 3/32. [Allocated Score Voting: Round 2] The highest-scoring candidate wins a seat. Bree -- 39+ 1/4 -- First place Cato -- 36+15/16 Della -- 33+15/16 Faye -- 22+ 3/8 Enzo -- 15+ 7/32 Bree wins a seat. [Allocated Score Voting: Winners — Allocated Score Voting Method (2 winners)] Amir Bree