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'''ABIF''' stands for "aggregated ballot information format"<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/issues/2</ref>.  As of May 2021, it has been undergoing discussion on the /r/[[EndFPTP]] subreddit and on the [[EM-list]].<ref name="EM-post-2788">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-May/002788.html</ref><ref name="robla-comment-reddit-2020-05-26">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/nkm2cd/standardizing_cardinal_ballot_notation/gzls6pj/</ref><ref>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-May/002789.html</ref>

ABIF uses the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 UTF-8] character encoding.

== Test cases ==

The normative set of test cases are on GitHub, and we'll be expanding them there.  Among the things we want to test for:

* Unordered scores on a bundle line (Test case #1)<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test001.abif</ref>
* Unscored (but ranked) candidates delimited only by ">" and "=" (Test case #2)<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test002.abif</ref>
* Ranked ''and'' rated candidates (Test case 3)<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test003.abif</ref>
* Bracketed, inlined candidate tokens with many "high UTF-8" characters, like "ñ", "í", "á", "蘇","業" (Test case 4)<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test004.abif</ref>
* Declared candidate tokens(Test case 5)<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test005.abif</ref>
* Declared candidate tokens, with unordered scores (Test case 6)<ref>https://github.com/electorama/abif/blob/main/testfiles/test006.abif</ref>
* Test case 6
** Bracketed candidate tokens (declared).  Ranked and scored.
* Test case 7
** Bracketed candidate tokens (declared).  Ranked with no score.
* Test case 8
** Bracketed candidate tokens (mixed).  Ranked with no score.  Most extra whitespace removed.
* Test case 9
** Asterisk-delimited multiplier (suggested by Jan Šimbera in May 2020: <ref>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2021-June/002793.html</ref>)


== Footnotes ==
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