ABIF

ABIF stands for "aggregated ballot information format". In 2021, User:RobLa started a GitHub repo under the "Electorama!" branding.

Discussions
The discussions about ABIF have been happening in several places:


 * In May 2021, the main discussions were on the /r/EndFPTP subreddit and on the EM-list.
 * In June 2021, the discussions shifted over to the EM-list, and then mostly on the GitHub issue tracker.
 * In July 2021, conversations were dying down, but then User:RobLa published an EBNF file describing ABIF. More activity occurred on GitHub.
 * By August 2021, conversations mostly shifted over to GitHub. User:RobLa opened the "Discussions" area on electorama/abif on GitHub, and provided an update on the project.
 * By April 2022, User:RobLa put a poll on GitHub: https://github.com/electorama/abif/discussions/31

Details
ABIF uses the UTF-8 character encoding.

Test cases
The normative set of test cases are on GitHub, and we'll be expanding them there.