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Single Transferable Vote
(redirected from Choice voting)

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Single Transferable Vote
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (modifier) of or relating to a system of voting in which voters list the candidates in order of preference. Any candidate achieving a predetermined proportion of the votes in a constituency is elected. Votes exceeding this amount and those cast for the bottom candidate are redistributed according to the stated preferences. Redistribution continues until all the seats are filled Abbreviation STV See proportional representation
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Last fall, I was joined by council members Bill Rosendahl and Ed Reyes in calling for the use of Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) for all city, county, LAUSD and Community College elections.
Let's start instant runoffs and cut our election costs by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Two such systems--cumulative voting and limited voting--have been adopted to settle more than 80 voting rights cases, and ballot measures to enact choice voting won some 45% of the vote in San Francisco in 1996 and Cincinnati in 1991.
Reclaiming Democracy in the 21st Century by Richie, Rob; Hill, Steven / Synthesis/Regeneration
An elections task force established by the voters in 1994 had surprised many observers by recommending that the choice voting form of PR (also known as STV) be placed on the ballot as an alternative to the at-large system currently in place.
This time let the voters decide: the proportional representation ... by Richie, Rob; Hill, Steven / Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
 
 
 
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