EM-list

The election-methods mailing list (or the EM-list) is a mailing list that was started in 1996 and continues to host discussions with electoral system experts and activists.

 
 * Official website: https://electorama.com/em/
 * Subscription information: http://lists.electorama.com/listinfo.cgi/election-methods-electorama.com
 * Archives (2015 and later): http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/
 * Archives (1996 through 2018): https://electorama.com/em/archive.html

Purpose
The list is for discussion of the nitty-gritty details of single-winner election reform, the relative merits of different proportional representation systems, and the technical underpinnings of all election methods. "election-methods-list" discussions tend to be technical in nature (or at least, very laden with jargon), with the ultimate goal of providing recommendations and educational material to the electoral reform movement.

1996 through 2003
The list was started in 1996 by Rob Lanphier. . It was started as an unofficial spinoff to the "ER-list", which was more concerned about promoting single-winner STV than diving into the weeds about the theory of electoral systems.

During its first few years, it was on eskimo.com, and was originally a "Majordomo" list.

2003 until today
In 2003, the list moved to the newly-formed Electorama.com website on Dreamhost, and transitioned to becoming a GNU Mailman-based mailing list. EM-list remains hosted on Dreamhost, but the old "Electowiki" wiki, hosted on Dreamhost was copied the Miraheze infrastructure in 2018 and rebranded "electowiki" (with a lowercase "e"). The old "Electowiki" wiki is still running to serve up history of articles written prior to 2018.

The archives and the latest subscription information for EM-list can be found at:


 * https://electorama.com/em/

25th Birthday

 * main article: EM25

The 25th Birthday of the EM-list happened on Monday, February 15. That's when User:RobLa sent the first email to the list.

Future
This section contains a couple of items about the future of the EM-list (as of February 2021):

C4ES Election Theory Forum
The C4ES Election-Theory Forum was rumored to be shutting down as early as June 2020. However, as of this writing in February 2021, it is still appears to be operational.