"alternative vote" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alternative votes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "alternative vote (plural alternative votes)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Voting systems",
          "orig": "en:Voting systems",
          "parents": [
            "Democracy",
            "Systems",
            "Forms of government",
            "Interdisciplinary fields",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "Government",
            "All topics",
            "Politics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A voting system in which each voter lists the candidates in order of preference. At each stage the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes transferred according to the voters' preferences."
      ],
      "id": "en-alternative_vote-en-noun-dn4r~PV2",
      "links": [
        [
          "voting system",
          "voting system"
        ],
        [
          "voter",
          "voter"
        ],
        [
          "candidates",
          "candidates"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alternative vote"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "alternative votes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Voting systems"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A voting system in which each voter lists the candidates in order of preference. At each stage the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes transferred according to the voters' preferences."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "voting system",
          "voting system"
        ],
        [
          "voter",
          "voter"
        ],
        [
          "candidates",
          "candidates"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "alternative vote"
}