election_title: "Crowded field, rung 3 — 3 candidates, 65 voters, counted by STAR"

scenario_description: |-
  RUNG 1 of the crowded-field ladder — three candidates, and all six methods agree.

  Diego stands at 11 on a 0–24 spectrum, near the middle of where the voters are. He
  beats both rivals head-to-head, so he is the Condorcet winner; he leads the scoring
  round 266 to Greta's 123 and Ana's 119, and takes the runoff 50–15 with nobody
  undecided. He even holds an outright majority of first choices, 34 of 65.

  Ranked Robin, Score, Approval, RCV-IRV and Choose-One elect him too. That is the point
  of this rung: with a small field there is nothing to argue about, so any disagreement
  further up the ladder was caused by the candidates who joined — the voters never move.

  Construction: build_ladder.py in this folder. 65 voters in seven blocs at 0, 4, 8, 12,
  16, 20, 24 (sizes 6, 10, 13, 9, 12, 8, 7); candidates fixed at Ana 1 · Bruno 6 ·
  Clara 9 · Diego 11 · Elsa 14 · Felix 16 · Greta 22; utility = minus distance; scores =
  each bloc's own min-max scaling onto 0–5. Nothing is tuned, and no count at any rung is
  settled by a tie-break.

voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1

lot_numbers: [Ana, Diego, Greta]

ballots: |-
  Count:Ana,Diego,Greta
  6:5,3,0    # bloc at 0
  10:5,4,0    # bloc at 4
  13:3,5,0    # bloc at 8
  9:0,5,0    # bloc at 12
  12:0,5,4    # bloc at 16
  8:0,3,5    # bloc at 20
  7:0,2,5    # bloc at 24

expected_winners:
  - Diego

# file: crowded_field_c3_star.yaml