election_title: "Clones are made of voters, not labels — the sugar group splits, the fizzy group doesn't"
scenario_description: |-
  Seven people, seven drinks, and two obvious ways to group them:

      Cola             fizzy   sugar        Diet Cola        fizzy   no sugar
      Root Beer        fizzy   sugar        Sparkling Water  fizzy   no sugar
      Lemonade         still   sugar        Unsweet Tea      still   no sugar
      Sweet Tea        still   sugar

  Count first choices by label and the two groupings are EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE:
  fizzy holds 4 of 7, sugar holds 4 of 7. Both are majorities. Both are spread
  across four candidates. From the outside they are the same situation.

  They are not. Choose-One elects DIET COLA on 2 of 7 (29%). The sugar majority
  really did split and really did lose. The fizzy majority never split at all,
  because it was never a bloc: a Diet Cola drinker does not want a Cola and
  scores it a 1. "Fizzy" describes the drinks. It says nothing about who backs
  them.

  Under STAR the two sweet drinks take BOTH runoff slots, Cola beats Lemonade
  4-3, and Diet Cola finishes fourth of seven in the scoring round.

  This file declares the SUGAR grouping and the engine reports vote splitting.
  Its twin, 09b, declares the FIZZY grouping over the identical ballots and the
  engine reports no spoiler. Same election, same winner, opposite verdict — the
  difference is not the arithmetic and not the size of the group, but whether the
  same people actually back all of its members. Only the ballots can tell you
  that, which is why no one can read a spoiler off a candidate list.
  Live results: https://bettervoting.com/8xrpyp/results

bv_test_id: BV2295
bv_election_id: 8xrpyp
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/8xrpyp/results
blocs:
  Sugar (a real clone set): [Cola, Root Beer, Lemonade, Sweet Tea]

voting_method: STAR
num_winners: 1

ballots: |-
  Cola,Root Beer,Lemonade,Sweet Tea,Diet Cola,Sparkling Water,Unsweet Tea
  5,4,4,3,1,0,0   # cola, and anything sweet will do
  4,5,3,3,1,0,0   # root beer, and anything sweet will do
  3,2,5,4,0,1,0   # lemonade, and anything sweet will do
  3,2,4,5,0,0,1   # sweet tea, and anything sweet will do
  1,1,0,0,5,4,3   # diet cola - no sugar, thanks
  1,0,0,0,5,3,4   # diet cola - no sugar, thanks
  0,0,1,1,3,4,5   # unsweet tea - no sugar, thanks

expected_winners:
  - Cola

# file: 09a_clones_are_voters_not_labels.yaml