====================================================================== SOURCE FILE: bv2144_mxfmhm_star.yaml TABULATED FILE: bv2144_mxfmhm_star_tabulated.txt ====================================================================== election_title: "Felsenthal Ex.1 — STAR (ranks→scores): elects the Condorcet winner" scenario_description: |- Race 2 of 2 in the Felsenthal plurality-paradoxes election (BV2144, bvid mxfmhm; BV-confirmed). Source: Dan S. Felsenthal, "Review of Paradoxes Afflicting Various Voting Procedures Where One Out of m Candidates (m ≥ 2) Must Be Elected", University of Haifa / LSE, revised 26 May 2010 (Leverhulme Trust "Voting Power in Practice" workshop, Château du Baffy, Normandy); Appendix A1, Example 1. The same 7 voters, rankings mapped to 0–5 scores with the house map (N=3: top=5, mid=3, bottom=1). Scores: Bo 25, Ana 19, Cal 19 — a scoring-round tie for the second finalist slot, broken head-to-head (Cal beats Ana 4–3, so Cal advances); Bo then wins the automatic runoff 5–2. STAR elects the Condorcet winner Bo, while Choose-One (race 1) elects Ana, the Condorcet-and-absolute loser. The tabulation, not the ballot, decides. Live results: https://bettervoting.com/mxfmhm/results bv_test_id: BV2144 bv_election_id: mxfmhm bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/mxfmhm/results paradoxes: [condorcet-winner, condorcet-loser, absolute-loser, spoiler-scc] voting_method: STAR num_winners: 1 ballots: |- Ana,Bo,Cal 5,3,1 5,3,1 5,3,1 1,5,3 1,5,3 1,3,5 1,3,5 expected_winners: - Bo # file: bv2144_mxfmhm_star.yaml ====================================================================== TABULATION RESULTS ====================================================================== === Felsenthal Ex.1 — STAR (ranks→scores): elects the Condorcet winner === Race 2 of 2 in the Felsenthal plurality-paradoxes election (BV2144, bvid mxfmhm; BV-confirmed). Source: Dan S. Felsenthal, "Review of Paradoxes Afflicting Various Voting Procedures Where One Out of m Candidates (m ≥ 2) Must Be Elected", University of Haifa / LSE, revised 26 May 2010 (Leverhulme Trust "Voting Power in Practice" workshop, Château du Baffy, Normandy); Appendix A1, Example 1. The same 7 voters, rankings mapped to 0–5 scores with the house map (N=3: top=5, mid=3, bottom=1). Scores: Bo 25, Ana 19, Cal 19 — a scoring-round tie for the second finalist slot, broken head-to-head (Cal beats Ana 4–3, so Cal advances); Bo then wins the automatic runoff 5–2. STAR elects the Condorcet winner Bo, while Choose-One (race 1) elects Ana, the Condorcet-and-absolute loser. The tabulation, not the ballot, decides. Live results: https://bettervoting.com/mxfmhm/results --- Runoff (Preference) Matrix --- Head-to-head / pairwise comparison Legend: For - Equal Support - Against * indicates Top 2 Finalist Note: Ana and Cal tied at 19 in the Scoring Round, and the head-to-head rung advanced Cal. The * marks who advanced, not who scored highest. | Ana | * Bo | * Cal | ----------------------------------------------------- Ana > | --- |3 - 0 - 4 |3 - 0 - 4 | * Bo > | 4 - 0 - 3 | --- |5 - 0 - 2 | * Cal > | 4 - 0 - 3 |2 - 0 - 5 | --- | [Condorcet Winner] Condorcet Winner: Bo — matches the STAR winner [Condorcet Loser] Condorcet Loser: Ana — loses every head-to-head matchup — elected by Choose-One (Plurality)! [Divergence from STAR] STAR = Bo Choose-One (Plurality) = Ana (differs from STAR) --- STAR Voting Method (single winner) --- [STAR Voting] Tabulating 7 ballots. Count × Ana,Bo,Cal 3 × 5, 3, 1 2 × 1, 5, 3 2 × 1, 3, 5 [Score Distribution] (how many ballots gave each star rating) Score Candidate 5 4 3 2 1 0 | Total Avg Ana 3 0 0 0 4 0 | 19 2.7 Bo 2 0 5 0 0 0 | 25 3.6 Cal 2 0 2 0 3 0 | 19 2.7 [STAR Voting: Scoring Round] The two highest-scoring candidates advance to the next round. Bo -- 25 -- First place Ana -- 19 -- Tied for second place Cal -- 19 -- Tied for second place Bo advances, but there's a two-way tie for second. [STAR Voting: Scoring Round: First tiebreaker] The candidate preferred in the most head-to-head matchups advances. Cal -- 4 -- Second place Ana -- 3 Equal Support -- 0 Bo and Cal advance. [STAR Voting: Automatic Runoff Round] The candidate preferred in the most head-to-head matchups wins. Bo -- 5 -- First place Cal -- 2 Equal Support -- 0 Bo wins. Runoff math: 7 ballots cast − 0 Equal Support (no preference between the two finalists) ─ 7 voters with a preference (majority = 4) Bo 5 (71%) · Cal 2 (29%) [STAR Voting: Winner — STAR Voting Method (single winner)] Bo