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The 25th Birthday of the EM-list happened on Monday, February 15. That's when [[User:RobLa]] sent the first email to the list.<ref name=":0" />
== Notation==
Over the years, participants on the list developed a notation for describing elections using lower-ASCII characters, since characters other than lower-ASCII tended to get garbled by mailing list archives and email delivery systems.
Electoral systems have long been chained using "//" between systems. For example, "Smith//Plurality" a system where the candidates are narrowed to the Smith set, followed by the candidate who receives a plurality of first place votes. "Smith//Condorcet" was frequently used to describe methods which allowed any member of Smith set who wins any method that complies with the [[Condorcet winner criterion]].<ref>http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/1996-April/065534.html</ref>
Separately, sets of ranked ballots have frequently expressed using a subset of [[ABIF]] over the years.
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