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[[The Center for Election Science]] has maintained a public [[discourse.org]] server since 2018, which they plan to start shutting down in July 2020.<ref name=":0">Announcement from the [[Center for Election Science]]: https://forum.electionscience.org/t/alternatives-to-the-ces-forum/699 (author: Felix Sargent, Chair of [[C4ES]])</ref> The "Election Theory" topic on the forum was the most active in early 2020.
[[The Center for Election Science]] maintained a public [[discourse.org]] server between 2018 and 2021 <ref name="wa">https://web.archive.org/web/20210713064147/https://forum.electionscience.org/</ref>. The forum was planned to be shut down in July 2020,<ref name=":0">Archived announcement from the [[Center for Election Science]]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200626123342/https://forum.electionscience.org/ (author: Felix Sargent, Chair of [[C4ES]])</ref> although this was delayed to accommodate plans by the users to migrate to a new forum. Ultimately activity on the forum stopped in early 2021 and the server was taken down in late 2021<ref name="wa" />. The "Election Theory" topic on the forum was the most active in early 2020.

The posts on the forum are archived at https://www.votingtheory.org/archive.


==Future==
==Future==


Users of the old forum created the [[Voting Theory Forum]] as an unofficial successor to the CES Forum <ref>https://www.votingtheory.org/archive/posts?where=%7B%22topic_id%22%3A757%7D</ref>
Now that https://forum.electionscience.org is shutting down<ref name=":0" />, this ''might'' cause a spike in activity on the [[EM-list]]. As of June 2020, this is still under discussion.<ref>https://forum.electionscience.org/t/alternatives-to-the-ces-forum/699</ref>

==Links==

*Link to [[electoral theory]] category on the C4ES discourse.org server:
**https://forum.electionscience.org/c/Compare-and-contrast-different-voting-methods/5


===Footnotes===
===Footnotes===

Revision as of 22:25, 13 December 2021

parent: The Center for Election Science

The Center for Election Science maintained a public discourse.org server between 2018 and 2021 [1]. The forum was planned to be shut down in July 2020,[2] although this was delayed to accommodate plans by the users to migrate to a new forum. Ultimately activity on the forum stopped in early 2021 and the server was taken down in late 2021[1]. The "Election Theory" topic on the forum was the most active in early 2020.

The posts on the forum are archived at https://www.votingtheory.org/archive.

Future

Users of the old forum created the Voting Theory Forum as an unofficial successor to the CES Forum [3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b https://web.archive.org/web/20210713064147/https://forum.electionscience.org/
  2. ↑ Archived announcement from the Center for Election Science: https://web.archive.org/web/20200626123342/https://forum.electionscience.org/ (author: Felix Sargent, Chair of C4ES)
  3. ↑ https://www.votingtheory.org/archive/posts?where=%7B%22topic_id%22%3A757%7D
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