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In 1997, FairVote began referring to preferential voting as "Instant Runoff voting".<ref>https://www.csmonitor.com/1997/0721/072197.opin.opin.1.html</ref><ref>From [https://web.archive.org/web/19990427031915/http://www.fairvote.org/email_archives/070298.htm the 1998 newsletter]: "Note that the transferable ballot can be used as a proportional representation system in multi-seat districts (what we call "choice voting") and in one-winner elections (what we call "instant runoff voting")."</ref>. Though the term "ranked-choice voting" existed as early as 1999,<ref>Instant Runoff Voting Charter Amendment for San Francisco passed on March 5, 2002, "''to provide for the election of the Mayor, Sheriff, District Attorney, City Attorney, Treasurer, Assessor-Recorder, Public Defender, and members of the Board of Supervisors using a ranked-choice, or “instant run-off,” ballot, to require that City voting systems be compatible with a ranked-choice ballot system, and setting a date and conditions for implementation.''"</ref>, they didn't appear to start using the term in earnest until 2006.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20060927205517/http://www.fairvote.org/rcv/</ref>, and didn't deprecate the term "instant runoff voting" until 2013.<ref>The

[https://web.archive.org/web/20130729141521/http://www.fairvote.org/ July 2013 homepage of fairvote.org] was the first to refer to "ranked choice voting" as a preferred term to "instant-runoff"</ref>