--- RCV / Instant-Runoff Voting (single winner) ---
  Alaska 2022 US House special (reduced model) — STAR & Ranked Robin elect Begich, the Condorcet winner RCV-IRV cut
 Tabulating 200 ballots (converted from score ballots; 0 = unranked, equal scores broken by candidate priority).

Ballots:
   the ranking RCV-IRV reads (0 = unranked, equal scores broken by priority);
   the source score ballot follows in () per column: Peltola, Begich, Palin
    25 ×   Peltola      (5, 0, 0)
    50 ×   Peltola > Begich      (5, 4, 0)
     5 ×   Peltola > Palin      (5, 0, 4)
    12 ×   Begich      (0, 5, 0)
    16 ×   Begich > Peltola      (4, 5, 0)
    29 ×   Begich > Palin      (0, 5, 4)
    23 ×   Palin      (0, 0, 5)
     4 ×   Palin > Peltola > Begich      (4, 3, 5)
    36 ×   Palin > Begich      (0, 4, 5)

ROUND 1
Candidate      Votes  Status
-----------  -------  --------
Peltola           80  Hopeful
Palin             63  Hopeful
Begich            57  Rejected

FINAL RESULT
Candidate      Votes  Status
-----------  -------  --------
Peltola           96  Elected
Palin             92  Rejected
Begich             0  Rejected
Blank Votes       12  Rejected


Winner(s) — RCV / Instant-Runoff Voting (single winner)
  Peltola

--- Smith Set (the generalized Condorcet winner) ---
The smallest group whose every member beats every candidate outside it —
the honest answer to "who is even in contention?".
   Smith set (1 of 3): Begich
   Outside (2):        Peltola, Palin
   One member ⇒ Begich is the Condorcet winner, beating every rival head-to-head.
   RCV-IRV winner Peltola is OUTSIDE the Smith set. ✗
      Every member of the set (Begich) beats Peltola head-to-head, yet
      RCV-IRV elected Peltola anyway. RCV-IRV is not Smith-efficient (nor
      Condorcet-efficient) — this is the shape a center squeeze leaves behind.
   More: 07_Concepts/topics/smith_set.md

NOTE: a generated cross-method view of the STAR ballots, for comparison only — not the official STAR result.