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this comparison table here actually shows STAR is a pretty terrible system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_systems
Some of those criterion are odd, and yeah, most don't even apply to STAR, because it's Cardinal and not Ordinal.
Bit it's also important to know why and how the criterion are applied.
Like being cloneproof,
This wiki, (which is better for election specific stuff) says this;
A bit later is says this;
It's a weakness, and it's important to know about, but it's not election breaking, it just renders the automatic runoff meaningless. Except it doesn't because people still care about the who, even if the platforms are identical.
An election breaking criterion to fail would be Monotonicity. STAR satisfies it.