election_title: "Margins matter — STAR on the same twelve ballots (rank converted 5/3/0)"
scenario_description: |-
  The same twelve gelato voters, with each ranking converted to scores on an even 5/3/0 spacing so a SCORE method can run on a RANKED profile. Under a uniform spacing the STAR scoring round IS a Borda count, so round one reproduces Borda's answer — Berry first — and then the automatic runoff runs the head-to-head Borda never runs: Almond beats Berry 7-5, and Almond wins. Honest caveat, stated on the page: unlike Condorcet's 1788 profile, this outcome is NOT robust to the spacing. 5/3/0, 5/4/0, 5/2/0 and 4/2/0 all give Almond, but a polarized 5/1/0 makes Cocoa a finalist instead of Berry and elects Cocoa. With no Condorcet winner to anchor it (the pairwise contests cycle), the rank-to-score mapping is doing real work — which is exactly the objection the Borda page raises against inventing intensities.
bv_test_id: BV2251
bv_election_id: kdjjkq
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/kdjjkq/results
voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1
ballots: |-
  Almond,Berry,Cocoa
  5,3,0
  5,3,0
  5,3,0
  5,3,0
  5,3,0
  0,5,3
  0,5,3
  0,5,3
  3,0,5
  3,0,5
  0,3,5
  0,3,5

expected_winners:
  - Almond

# file: margins_star.yaml