From 72a75621f6a92131d7170ef084127f1db06dff5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhartha Prasad <siddhartha_prasad@brown.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:17:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] A fix

---
 src/pickController.ts | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pickController.ts b/src/pickController.ts
index 6e8a546..da866b0 100644
--- a/src/pickController.ts
+++ b/src/pickController.ts
@@ -682,15 +682,12 @@ export class PickController {
     for (const record of this.wordHistory) {
       if (record.classification === WordClassification.ACCEPT) {
         for (const candidate of this.candidates) {
-          if (candidate.eliminated) {
-            continue;
-          }
           if (this.analyzer.verifyMatch(record.word, candidate.pattern)) {
             candidate.positiveVotes++;
           } else {
             // Candidate fails to match an accepted word - negative vote
             candidate.negativeVotes++;
-            if (candidate.negativeVotes >= candidate.eliminationThreshold) {
+            if (!candidate.eliminated && candidate.negativeVotes >= candidate.eliminationThreshold) {
               candidate.eliminated = true;
               logger.info(
                 `[Replay] Eliminated candidate "${candidate.pattern}" after ${candidate.negativeVotes} negative votes (threshold ${candidate.eliminationThreshold}) - failed to match accepted word "${record.word}".`
@@ -700,17 +697,17 @@ export class PickController {
         }
       } else if (record.classification === WordClassification.REJECT) {
         for (const candidate of this.candidates) {
-          if (candidate.eliminated) {
-            continue;
-          }
           if (this.analyzer.verifyMatch(record.word, candidate.pattern)) {
             candidate.negativeVotes++;
-            if (candidate.negativeVotes >= candidate.eliminationThreshold) {
+            if (!candidate.eliminated && candidate.negativeVotes >= candidate.eliminationThreshold) {
               candidate.eliminated = true;
               logger.info(
                 `[Replay] Eliminated candidate "${candidate.pattern}" after ${candidate.negativeVotes} negative votes (threshold ${candidate.eliminationThreshold}) - incorrectly matched rejected word "${record.word}".`
               );
             }
+          } else {
+            // Candidate correctly does NOT match a rejected word - positive vote
+            candidate.positiveVotes++;
           }
         }
       }

From 9fa58e7c05db836c11648eafd4810b8833a04ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhartha Prasad <siddhartha_prasad@brown.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:18:12 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] hotfix

---
 package.json | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ca02234..0c8eb60 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "publisher": "SiddharthaPrasad",
   "icon": "images/icon.png",
   "license": "MIT",
-  "version": "0.5.4",
+  "version": "0.5.5",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/sidprasad/pick-regex"

From 791af58f0248db303b04718b462ce3c7e5d13400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siddhartha Prasad <siddhartha_prasad@brown.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:31:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Another bugfix

---
 src/pickController.ts | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pickController.ts b/src/pickController.ts
index da866b0..b75254a 100644
--- a/src/pickController.ts
+++ b/src/pickController.ts
@@ -705,10 +705,8 @@ export class PickController {
                 `[Replay] Eliminated candidate "${candidate.pattern}" after ${candidate.negativeVotes} negative votes (threshold ${candidate.eliminationThreshold}) - incorrectly matched rejected word "${record.word}".`
               );
             }
-          } else {
-            // Candidate correctly does NOT match a rejected word - positive vote
-            candidate.positiveVotes++;
           }
+          // If doesn't match: no vote (correctly rejecting is neutral/expected)
         }
       }
     }