symbol symÂ·bol (sÄ­m'bÉl) n. Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible. A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, an element, a quantity, or a relation, as in mathematics or chemistry.
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This article is about voting systems that use ranked ballots. For voting systems that use ballots rated on the interval scale, see cardinal voting systems. Preferential voting or rank voting describes certain voting systems in which voters rank outcomes in a hierarchy on the ordinal scale.When choosing between more than two options, preferential voting systems provide a number of advantages over first-past-the-post voting (also called plurality voting).his does not mean that preferential voting is always the best system; Arrow's impossibility theorem proves that no method can simultaneously obtain all properties desirable in a voting system.