STV
noun [ C usually singular ] uk/ˌes.tiː.ˈviː/ us/ˌes.tiː.ˈviː/
单记可让渡投票（制），可转移单票（制）（single transferable vote的缩写）
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. 参与单记可让渡投票的选民不可避免地被剥夺了知情权，而这些信息可能会影响到他们的投票选择。
First they give a reminder of the way in which the STV would work in parliamentary constituencies. 首先，他们提醒人们注意单记可让渡投票在议会选区的运作方式。
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- 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.