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== Renaming "preferential voting" == |
== Renaming "preferential voting" == |
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Prior to FairVote's work, the single-winner version of [[single transferable vote]] was primarily used outside of the United States (e.g. in Australia), and was known in Australia as "preferential voting". |
Prior to FairVote's work, the single-winner version of [[single transferable vote]] was primarily used outside of the United States (e.g. in Australia), and was known in Australia as "preferential voting". |
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In commentary published in the New York Times in 1992, John Anderson referred to the single-winner system as "majority preference voting".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Anderson|first=John B.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/24/opinion/break-the-political-stranglehold.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Break the Political Stranglehold|date=1992-07-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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In 1993, FairVote's first annual report referred to the system as "preference voting",<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19990507180316/http://www.fairvote.org/cvd_reports/1993/introduction.html |
In 1993, FairVote's first annual report referred to the system as "preference voting",<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19990507180316/http://www.fairvote.org/cvd_reports/1993/introduction.html |