election_title: "Preference vs Support — the center TOLERATED (wings score Blair 1)"

scenario_description: |-
  The "tolerated" half of a matched pair (companion: the SUPPORTED election,
  bv2226_82gg36_center_supported). Three candidates on a spectrum — Alex (a pole),
  Blair (the center), Cole (the other pole). Blair is every faction's second choice
  and the Condorcet winner, but the two wings score him only a GRUDGING 1.
  The rankings here are byte-identical to the SUPPORTED election; the ONLY thing
  that changes between the two is Blair's score from the wings (1 here, 4 there).
  Because the orders are identical, the ranked methods can't tell the two elections
  apart: RCV-IRV center-squeezes Blair both times (-> Alex); Ranked Robin finds Blair
  the Condorcet winner both times (-> Blair). Only STAR responds to the support level:
  with Blair at a thin 1 he misses the runoff, and STAR elects the candidate with a
  real base, Alex. Flip the wings' Blair score to 4 (the companion) and STAR alone
  moves to Blair. That is the whole preference-vs-support lesson as a live election.
  Live results: https://bettervoting.com/ywx39y/results

video_script: |-
  Same election as its twin in every ranked respect — read the orders off the ballots
  and they're identical. All that changed is how hard the wings back Blair. Ask the
  room: "If Blair only earns 1s from the wings — barely tolerated — has he earned the
  seat?" STAR says no: elect Alex, who has a real base. IRV agrees (for the wrong
  reason — it squeezed Blair out). Ranked Robin says yes on order alone — and it says
  the SAME yes when Blair earns real 4s next door, unable to see the difference.

paradoxes: [condorcet-winner]
voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1

bv_test_id: BV2225
bv_election_id: ywx39y
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/ywx39y/results

ballots: |-
  Count:Alex,Blair,Cole
  15:5,1,0   # Alex > Blair > Cole   (Blair a grudging 2nd — scored 1)
  6:1,5,0    # Blair > Alex > Cole   (Blair's base — unchanged in both elections)
  15:0,1,5   # Cole > Blair > Alex   (Blair a grudging 2nd — scored 1)

expected_winners:
  - Alex

# file: bv2225_ywx39y_center_tolerated.yaml