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(STV), where the vote transfer is determined by the candidate's instructions and not the individual voters choices. This system allows to achieve many of the benefits of STV without the complexity of implementing a ranked voting system. First invented by Massachusetts legislator William H. Gove of Salem and Archibald E. Dobbs of Ireland, author of Representative Reform for Ireland (1879).In America, why does proportional voting have to attack political parties? Jack Santucci, April 5, 2018
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indirect election An indirect election or ''hierarchical voting'' is an election in which voters do not choose directly among candidates or parties for an office (direct voting system), but elect people who in turn choose candidates or parties. It is one of the old ...

by the single transferable vote'', which means an election by a legislative body or electoral college (instead of the enfranchised population) using the standard (direct) single transferable vote system. Such a system is used among others in some states of

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The indirect single transferable voting is used to elect some members of the

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