secco

11:34 Dec 18, 2019 

I have no idea. Maybe you posted it in reference section because my question was regarding the USE of "secco" rather than the rest of the sentence, which is what you refered to. i.e. "First past the post" was my original translation anyway,.
So I guess you would need to give an explanation on the redundancy vs use of "secco", which was my original question.

11:02 Dec 18, 2019 

I don't know if I should use the reference and the explanation I posted as answer. How does it work in this case?

10:44 Dec 18, 2019 

Is anybody posting an answer here?

16:05 Dec 17, 2019 

The response to Phil's question (albeit having disappeared) is actually in the addendum of Silvana's reference post - and it is interesting to find out what this sort of thing means, as Phil said in the elusive discussion post.
The direct or exact translation does not seem to be used in UK, where we use "first past the post".

Thanks all.

15:02 Dec 17, 2019 

From Silvana's ref. As opposed to Sistema uninominale a doppio turno (alla francese o con ballottaggio).

*This was a response to Phil's question, which appears to have disappeared!

11:53 Dec 17, 2019 

Well there was no need to express any sarcasm, as my original question states, I have already used "first-past-the-post" anyway, but wanted to check I was not leaving anything out by not using it - just read my question before people started to get "sarcastic".

11:03 Dec 17, 2019 

First-past-the-post is the exact translation of the term uninominale secco. And I'd hazard a guess that Fiona was being slightly sarcastic in her comment above.

11:01 Dec 17, 2019 

Great, thanks for confirming that, I was just asking Fiona to elaborate on her idea of actually using it. I guess it could be left out.

10:45 Dec 17, 2019 

I think that Silvana's reference clearly shows that 'uninominale secco' means 'first-past-the-post'. No need to add anything else. And no need for a comma after it.

10:37 Dec 17, 2019 

I have put "The British majoritarian, first-past-the-post, electoral system generally facilitates ..."

10:34 Dec 17, 2019 

I don't know, but the voting system language here seems to be traditionally taken from horse racing, as the reference link explains. So maybe there is a meaning in "secco" within horse racing??

10:34 Dec 17, 2019 

No, I think I would use "dry". Quite definitely!!!!!!

06:58 Dec 17, 2019 

Could it mean single-round, or non-transferable vote?