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<!--a picture of an old STV voting machine would go very well here-->The concept of transferable voting was first proposed by [[Thomas Wright Hill]] in 1819.<ref>[[Nicolaus Tideman]], ''Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice'', Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington VT, 2006.</ref> The system remained unused in public elections until 1855, when [[Carl Andræ]] proposed a transferable vote system for elections in
Although he was not the first to propose a system of transferable votes, the English
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The noted political essayist, [[w:John Stuart Mill]], was a friend of Hare and an early proponent of STV, praising it in his 1861 essay ''[[w:Considerations on Representative Government]]''. His contemporary, [[w:Walter Bagehot]], also praised the Hare system for allowing everyone to elect an MP, even ideological minorities, but also added that the Hare system would create more problems than it solved: "[the Hare system] is inconsistent with the extrinsic independence as well as the inherent moderation of a Parliament – two of the conditions we have seen, are essential to the bare possibility of parliamentary government."<ref name="Bagehot">{{cite book | last=Bagehot | first=Walter | title=The English Constitution | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-139-16383-5 | doi=10.1017/cbo9781139163835|url=https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/bagehot/constitution.pdf}}
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STV spread through the
In the 20th century, many refinements were made to Hare's original system, by scholars such as Droop, Meek, Warren and Tideman
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