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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".
 
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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''A Note on Terminology: Reflecting the range of contributors, this report has some inconsistencies in terminology to describe different voting systems. In addition, what many call the "single transferable vote" here is termed "preference voting" in order to focus on the voting process rather than the ballot count.''
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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 &quot;Fuller, Fairer Elections? How?&quot;]. ''Christian Science Monitor''. 1997-07-21. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Number ISSN] [https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0882-7729 0882-7729]<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-12-14</span></span>.</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>http://archive.fairvote.org/library/statutes/irv_stat_lang.htm San Francisco Charter Amendment, introduced October 1999 "SEC. 13.102. RANKED-CHOICE BALLOTS"</ref><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/ FairVote and the LWV-Arizona Support Ranked Choice Voting]" Dr. Barbara Klein and Rob Richie</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>
 
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