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==Single transferable vote==
To weaken the party machine that was controlling New York City, progressive forces pushed for the adoption of [[STV]] there, and STV was adopted by voters of the city in 1936. Before this change, Democrats would
The Democratic party machine fought back and managed to repeal the method in 1947, using red-baiting tactics. In the New York Post in 1947, Tammany Hall leader Frank J. Sampson called STV "This Stalin Frankenstein system" and "a foreign political theory that has created confusion with the blessing of the Kremlin".<ref name="Zeller Bone 1948 pp. 1127–1148">{{cite journal | last=Zeller | first=Belle | last2=Bone | first2=Hugh A. | title=The Repeal of P.R. in New York City—Ten Years in Retrospect | journal=American Political Science Review | publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) | volume=42 | issue=6 | year=1948 | issn=0003-0554 | doi=10.2307/1950618 | pages=1127–1148}}</ref>
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