election_title: Zero support — nobody scored anybody (Approval)
scenario_description: |-
  Five nominees, three voters, and every single score is 0.

  This is the degenerate limit of a tie: not "the ballots point two ways" but
  "the ballots point nowhere at all". Every candidate has the same total (0),
  every head-to-head is Equal Support 0-0, and every rung above the lot has
  nothing to count — so whichever method is asked, the answer comes from the
  published lot order and not from a vote.

  It is a real shape, not only a thought experiment. A committee ballot that
  goes out with five names nobody has heard of comes back like this; so does a
  race where the electorate deliberately withholds support. What the file is
  for is checking that the engine says so OUT LOUD rather than reporting a
  winner as though somebody had chosen one.

  Same three ballots are counted six ways in this folder — see the README for
  what each method does with them, and which of the six admits the lot decided.


voting_method: Approval
num_winners: 1

lot_numbers: [Ada, Ben, Cleo, Dev, Elsa]

ballots: |-
  Ada,Ben,Cleo,Dev,Elsa
  0,0,0,0,0   # voter 1 — turned out, then scored every nominee 0
  0,0,0,0,0   # voter 2 — a deliberate 0 is not a blank ballot
  0,0,0,0,0   # voter 3 — the third ballot says the same thing

expected_winners:
  - Ada

# file: zero_support_approval.yaml