election_title: "Rung 3 — eight candidates: the banana wins on 22%"
scenario_description: |-
  The SAME nine people again. Two more apple varieties join the list — Pink Lady
  and McIntosh — and they are the true favourites of the last two voters who were
  still marking Gala. Both peel away.

  Now every apple holds exactly ONE mark and Banana holds two. Banana wins with
  2 of 9 — twenty-two percent — while seven of the nine people (78%) came in
  wanting an apple. Nobody changed their mind between this rung and the last one.
  Nobody voted strategically. Two candidates joined the ballot.

  Look at where the two newcomers finished: Pink Lady and McIntosh got one vote
  each. Neither could win. TOGETHER they changed who did — and the word matters:
  add either one alone to rung 2 and the race deadlocks at Gala 2, Banana 2
  rather than flipping, so it takes the pair. That is exactly what the word
  SPOILER means — not a candidate who wins unfairly, but one who cannot win and
  alters the result anyway. (It is also why the ladder skips seven names: that
  rung is the 2-2 dead heat.)

  And Banana is not merely a minority winner. It is the CONDORCET LOSER — every
  single apple beats it head-to-head. Choose-One elected the one candidate this
  electorate would reject in any pairing you care to run.

  The general rule, visible across rungs 1-3: the rival takes the lead the moment
  no single member of the split side holds more first choices than the rival
  does. Under Choose-One, adding candidates cannot help the side doing the
  adding. (State the method — it is not a universal law. A Borda ballot rewards
  running clones, which is the mirror-image failure called teaming.)
  Live results: https://bettervoting.com/vq78wk/results

bv_test_id: BV2293
bv_election_id: vq78wk
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/vq78wk/results
blocs:
  Apples: [Granny Smith, Gala, Fuji, Honeycrisp, Pink Lady, Red Delicious, McIntosh]

paradoxes: [spoiler-scc, clone-teaming, condorcet-winner]
voting_method: Plurality
num_winners: 1

ballots: |-
  Granny Smith,Gala,Fuji,Honeycrisp,Pink Lady,Red Delicious,McIntosh,Banana
  1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0   # Granny Smith
  0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0   # Gala
  0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0   # Fuji
  0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0   # Honeycrisp
  0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0   # Pink Lady - was marking Gala at rung 2
  0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0   # Red Delicious
  0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0   # McIntosh - was marking Gala at rung 2
  0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1   # banana person
  0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1   # banana person

expected_winners:
  - Banana