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== Renaming "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".
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>
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
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