Two chapters, one delegate — Southside chapter (4 members)¶

Generated from b38b7fg_districting_south.yaml — do not edit by hand. Regenerate: python STARVote_LH_tabulation_engine/tools_adam/scripts/build_yaml_pages.py.

Method: STAR (single winner) · 1 seat · Expected winner: Beto

▶ Live on BetterVoting: vote · results ↗ (election 38b7fg · test BV2274).

Scenario¶

Part of the districting-cost trio. Two chapters of one club elect a single national delegate. Ana is adored in Northside and unknown in Southside; Beto is the mirror image; Cleo is everybody's solid second. Counted chapter by chapter, Cleo wins NEITHER — so a delegate chosen from the chapter winners is Ana or Beto. Counted as one electorate, Cleo wins outright, and she is also the highest-welfare candidate (33 points to Ana's 23 and Beto's 19) and the Condorcet winner. That gap is the distortion of distributed voting, made countable. Companion concept page: 07_Concepts/topics/distributed_voting_distortion.md Live on BetterVoting (Test ID BV2274): https://bettervoting.com/38b7fg/results — ONE election carries all three counts as three races. The chapter races hold all nine papers, with the other chapter's members leaving the contest blank; a blank scores 0, so every total matches this file exactly.

Ballots¶

Row 1 = candidate names; each later row is one voter's 0–5 scores (a N × prefix = N identical ballots).

Ana,Beto,Cleo
0,5,3
0,5,3
0,5,3
0,4,5

What the engine says¶

The count, step by step — the rounds and how the winner is reached:

--- STAR Voting Method (single winner) ---

[STAR Voting]
 Tabulating 4 ballots.
Count × Ana,Beto,Cleo
    3 ×   0,   5,   3
    1 ×   0,   4,   5

[STAR Voting: Scoring Round]
 The two highest-scoring candidates advance to the next round.
   Beto          -- 19 -- First place
   Cleo          -- 14 -- Second place
   Ana           --  0
 Beto and Cleo advance.

[STAR Voting: Automatic Runoff Round]
 The candidate preferred in the most head-to-head matchups wins.
   Beto          -- 3 -- First place
   Cleo          -- 1
   Equal Support -- 0
 Beto wins.
   Runoff math:
     4  ballots cast
   − 0  Equal Support (no preference between the two finalists)
     ─
     4  voters with a preference  (majority = 3)
           Beto 3 (75%)  ·  Cleo 1 (25%)

[STAR Voting: Winner — STAR Voting Method (single winner)]
 Beto

Full audit — preference matrix, Condorcet, and score distribution¶

--- Runoff (Preference) Matrix ---
Head-to-head / pairwise comparison
Legend: For - Equal Support - Against
        * indicates Top 2 Finalist
               |     Ana    |  * Beto   |  * Cleo   |
-----------------------------------------------------
         Ana > |    ---     |0 - 0 - 4  |0 - 0 - 4  |
      * Beto > | 4 - 0 - 0  |   ---     |3 - 0 - 1  |
      * Cleo > | 4 - 0 - 0  |1 - 0 - 3  |   ---     |

[Condorcet Winner]
  Condorcet Winner: Beto — matches the STAR winner

[Condorcet Loser]
  Condorcet Loser: Ana — loses every head-to-head matchup

[Score Distribution] (how many ballots gave each star rating)
                Score
Candidate  5  4  3  2  1  0  | Total   Avg
Ana        0  0  0  0  0  4  |     0   0.0
Beto       3  1  0  0  0  0  |    19   4.8
Cleo       1  0  3  0  0  0  |    14   3.5

Everything in one file: the _tabulated mirror (regenerated on every run; every analysis forced on).

Run it yourself:

python STARVote_LH_tabulation_engine/starvote_larry_hastings.py method_comparisons/districting_cost/cases/b38b7fg_districting_south.yaml

Two chapters, one delegate — Southside chapter (4 members)¶

Scenario¶

Ballots¶

What the engine says¶

Full audit — preference matrix, Condorcet, and score distribution¶

See also¶