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The list was started in 1996 by Rob Lanphier.<ref name=":0">First message to the new EM-list on February 15, 1996: http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-February/065327.html</ref><ref>Rob Lanphier is "[[User:RobLa]]" on this wiki</ref>. It was started as an unofficial spinoff to the "[[ER-list]]", which was more concerned about promoting [[Instant-runoff voting|single-winner STV]] than diving into the weeds about the [[Electoral systems|theory of electoral systems]].

During its first few years, it was on [https://eskimo.com eskimo.com], and was originally a "Majordomo" list. In 2003, the list moved to the newly-formed [[Electorama.com]] website on [[Dreamhost]], and transitioned to becoming a [[wikipedia:GNU Mailman|GNU Mailman]]-based mailing list.<ref>[http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2003-March/074889.html <nowiki>[EM] election-methods list move</nowiki>] -- Rob Lanphier, 2003 March 4</ref> [[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.

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Now that theThe [[C4ES Election-Theory Forum]] iswas rumored to be shutting down as early as June 2020.<ref>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> However, as of this ''might''writing causein aFebruary spike2021, init activityis onstill theappears EM-listto be operational.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forum.electionscience.org/t/gambling-to-select-for-robustly-functional-voting-algorithms/915|title=Gambling TBDto Select for Robustly Functional Voting Algorithms|date=2021-02-05|website=Voting Methods Forum|language=en-US|access-date=2021-02-12}}</ref>

The 25th anniversary of this mailingthe EM-list is coming up on Monday, February 15 (2021). That's the 25th anniversary of when [[User:RobLa]] sent the first email to the list.<ref name=":0" />