• winner elected with roughly the same number of votes. There are several variants of the Single Transferable Vote, each with different properties. When using...
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    The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote...
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    limited voting where each elector has one vote, or as a simple version of Single Transferable Voting where votes are not transferred. Unlike block voting or...
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    ranked-vote systems. Unlike the contingent vote, other ranked-vote systems – such as single transferable voting (STV), instant-runoff voting (IRV), Coombs'...
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  • complications and issues surrounding the application and use of single transferable vote proportional representation that form the basis of discussions...
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    that ranked transferable votes could be used to produce a single winner, despite the qualms of Condorcet and others. Single transferable voting (multi-seat...
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  • Indirect single transferable voting or Gove system is a version of single transferable vote (STV), where the vote transfer is determined by the candidate's...
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    seeks to replace first-past-the-post voting with proportional representation, advocating the single transferable vote, and an elected upper house of Parliament...
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    representation (single transferable vote), but instant-runoff voting is a non-proportional single-winner election method, while single transferable vote elects...
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  • Vote counting is the process of counting votes in an election. It can be done manually or by machines. In the United States, the compilation of election...
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    from proportionality Plurality-at-large voting Approval voting Single non-transferable vote Single transferable vote Prior to the 2020 election, the US states...
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  • Historically, the single transferable vote (STV) electoral system has seen a series of relatively modest periods of usage and disusage throughout the world;...
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    conception of the single transferable vote, while Andrew Inglis Clark (1848–1907) introduced the system to Tasmania with a modified counting method. "The specific...
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    Quota method (category Voting theory)
    results to single transferable vote or the quota Borda system, where voters organize themselves into solid coalitions. The single transferable vote or the...
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  • (such as those often used together with the single transferable vote). In this system, voters were asked to vote for a party candidate based on items such...
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    are elected. Single transferable voting elects a mixed, balanced group of members in a single contest. It does this partly by allowing votes cast on unelectable...
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    Plurality block voting, also called as multiple non-transferable vote, and block plurality voting, is a type of block voting method for multi-winner elections...
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    where the voting system allows for the selection of multiple winners at once. Block voting falls under the multiple non-transferable vote category, a...
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    respect, it is similar to other ranked voting systems such as instant-runoff voting, the single transferable vote or Condorcet methods. The integer-valued...
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    errors. Group voting tickets were introduced in Australia owing to the high number of informal votes cast in single transferable vote (STV) elections...
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    Hogben, G. (1913). "Preferential Voting in Single-member Constituencies, with Special Reference to the Counting of Votes". Transactions and Proceedings...
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  • ballot for women. By July 1936, IBM had mechanized voting and ballot tabulation for single transferable vote elections. Using a series of dials, the voter...
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    topics Instant-runoff voting Approval Voting Score voting Single non-transferable vote Single transferable vote Runoff voting Mudambi, Navarra & Nicosia...
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    strictly defined, but most often refers to instant-runoff voting (IRV) or single transferable vote (STV), the main difference being whether only one winner...
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    number of votes for runner over opponent (runner,opponent) or the number of votes for opponent over runner (opponent, runner). If pairwise counting is used...
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    share of wasted votes, the complexity of vote counting, proportionality of the representation elected based on parties' shares of votes, and barriers to...
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  • BC-STV (category Single transferable vote)
    2004 for use in British Columbia, and belongs to the single transferable vote family of voting systems. BC-STV was supported by a majority (57.7 percent)...
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    quota and is declared elected. She has 40 votes more than the quota so these surplus votes are transferred. They go to Chris. The tallies therefore become:...
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    voting (IRV) voters rank candidates from first to last. The last-place candidate (the one with the fewest first-place votes) is eliminated; the votes...
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  • electronic voting. Electronic voting technology intends to speed the counting of ballots, reduce the cost of paying staff to count votes manually and...
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