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SOURCE FILE:     bv2170_pp2q4q_plurality.yaml
TABULATED FILE:  bv2170_pp2q4q_plurality_tabulated.txt
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election_title: "Symmetric centrist (47/47/3/3) — Choose-One: the poles tie, the centrist gets 6"
scenario_description: |-
  One of four races in the Symmetric Centrist election (BV2170, bvid pp2q4q; BV-confirmed). 100 voters, three candidates, ONE electorate tabulated four ways. Under Choose-One (Plurality) only first choices count: Avery 47, Blake 47, Casey 6. The centrist Condorcet winner finishes last on first choices, and the two poles tie 47–47.

  Random tiebreak — NOT freezable. The 47–47 pole tie is exact (perfect symmetry), so BetterVoting breaks it at RANDOM; this run elected Blake (frozen in the export), but a re-tally could elect Avery. lot_numbers is pinned to BV's `perm` for this run so LH reproduces the frozen result; the winner here is a coin flip, not a property of the ballots.

  Live results: https://bettervoting.com/pp2q4q/results
  Companion races: bv2170_pp2q4q_star.yaml, bv2170_pp2q4q_irv.yaml, bv2170_pp2q4q_ranked_robin.yaml.
  Overview page: bv2170_pp2q4q_symmetric_centrist.md
bv_test_id: BV2170
bv_election_id: pp2q4q
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/pp2q4q/results
paradoxes: [condorcet-winner]
voting_method: Plurality
num_winners: 1
lot_numbers: [Casey, Blake, Avery]
ballots: |-
  Count:Avery,Blake,Casey
  47:1,0,0
  47:0,1,0
  3:0,0,1
  3:0,0,1
expected_winners:
  - Blake

# file: bv2170_pp2q4q_plurality.yaml

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TABULATION RESULTS
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--- Choose-One / Plurality Voting Method (single winner) ---
 Tabulating 100 ballots.

                   Avery  Blake  Casey 
  47 ×               X      -      -   
  47 ×               -      X      -   
  6 ×                -      -      X   

  Count the marks:  Blake 47 · Avery 47 · Casey 6

 A 2-way tie for first: Blake, Avery — 47 mark(s) each.
   Counting the marks is all a choose-one ballot can do, so the ballots cannot break it;
   the pre-published lot order decides: ['Casey', 'Blake', 'Avery'].

[Lot-decided tie — rare]
  ⚠ The result here was set by lot, not by the votes.

Winner — Choose-One / Plurality Voting Method (single winner)
 Blake   (47 of 100 marks, by lot)