====================================================================== SOURCE FILE: star_district_A.yaml TABULATED FILE: star_district_A_tabulated.txt ====================================================================== election_title: "Summability demo — STAR district A (Maple wins outright)" scenario_description: |- District A of the STAR summability trio: 3 ballots, Maple wins. The point of the trio: STAR's precinct subtotals — per-candidate score sums and the pairwise matrix — can be published as-is and simply ADDED. See star_combined.yaml, where this district's tallies and district B's sum, cell by cell, to the combined result with no ballot-level recount. voting_method: STAR num_winners: 1 expected_winners: [Maple] ballots: |- Maple, Oak, Pine 5,4,0 5,3,1 0,2,5 lot_numbers: [Maple, Oak, Pine] # file: star_district_A.yaml ====================================================================== TABULATION RESULTS ====================================================================== === Summability demo — STAR district A (Maple wins outright) === District A of the STAR summability trio: 3 ballots, Maple wins. The point of the trio: STAR's precinct subtotals — per-candidate score sums and the pairwise matrix — can be published as-is and simply ADDED. See star_combined.yaml, where this district's tallies and district B's sum, cell by cell, to the combined result with no ballot-level recount. --- Runoff (Preference) Matrix --- Head-to-head / pairwise comparison Legend: For - Equal Support - Against * indicates Top 2 Finalist | * Maple | * Oak | Pine | ----------------------------------------------------- * Maple > | --- |2 - 0 - 1 |2 - 0 - 1 | * Oak > | 1 - 0 - 2 | --- |2 - 0 - 1 | Pine > | 1 - 0 - 2 |1 - 0 - 2 | --- | [Condorcet Winner] Condorcet Winner: Maple — matches the STAR winner [Condorcet Loser] Condorcet Loser: Pine — loses every head-to-head matchup --- STAR Voting Method (single winner) --- [STAR Voting] Tabulating 3 ballots. Maple,Oak,Pine 5, 4, 0 5, 3, 1 0, 2, 5 [Score Distribution] (how many ballots gave each star rating) Score Candidate 5 4 3 2 1 0 | Total Avg Maple 2 0 0 0 0 1 | 10 3.3 Oak 0 1 1 1 0 0 | 9 3.0 Pine 1 0 0 0 1 1 | 6 2.0 [STAR Voting: Scoring Round] The two highest-scoring candidates advance to the next round. Maple -- 10 -- First place Oak -- 9 -- Second place Pine -- 6 Maple and Oak advance. [STAR Voting: Automatic Runoff Round] The candidate preferred in the most head-to-head matchups wins. Maple -- 2 -- First place Oak -- 1 Equal Support -- 0 Maple wins. Runoff math: 3 ballots cast − 0 Equal Support (no preference between the two finalists) ─ 3 voters with a preference (majority = 2) Maple 2 (67%) · Oak 1 (33%) [STAR Voting: Winner — STAR Voting Method (single winner)] Maple