0 abbreviation for single transferable vote: a single vote using a system where, if your preferred candidate does not get enough votes to stay in the election, your vote can be given to your second choice of candidate; the voting system itself:
The user of the STV is inevitably denied knowledge that could influence his or her preferences.
First they give a reminder of the way in which the STV would work in parliamentary constituencies.
Nobody seems to notice that the oddest thing about the STV is precisely that it is a single vote - for that is what it is, no matter how many preferences are expressed.
Votes are transferred to the next "continuing candidate", as the STV jargon has it.
Some such process is frequently to be observed in the tabulated successive counts of STVs in Irish constituency elections.
