FairVote: Difference between revisions

fixed up the original "preference voting" term
(Adding reference to San Francisco Charter Amendment October 1999 about "RANKED-CHOICE BALLOTS")
(fixed up the original "preference voting" term)
Line 11:
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 1993, FairVote's first annual report referred to the system as "preferentialpreference voting"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19990507180316/http://www.fairvote.org/cvd_reports/1993/introduction.html
</ref>, which included the following caveat:
<blockquote>