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'''Single distributed vote''' (SDV) is an [[electoral system]] that extends the concept of [[Sequential proportional approval voting]] to [[Score voting]] ballots. It is general [[Cardinal voting systems|Cardinal voting system]] which reduces to [[Sequential proportional approval voting]] with [[approval voting]] ballots. Proposed by [[Keith Edmonds]] in 2020,<ref> {{Cite web|url=https://forum.electionscience.org/t/unifying-thiele-and-unitary-philosophy/604|title=Unifying Thiele and Unitary philosophy|last=|first=|date=2020-02-16|website=The Center for Election Science forum|language=en-US|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref> as a way to improve [[Reweighted Range Voting]] to be more in line with the desire to preserve vote weight. As such, it uses a similar but different vote conserving mechanism to [[Vote unitarity]]. It a the natural extension of the [[Webster]] or [[Jefferson Method]] to a [[Multi-Member System]].