Election-methods mailing list: Difference between revisions
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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>
During its first few years, it was on [https://eskimo.com eskimo.com], and was originally a "Majordomo" list.
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=== 25th Birthday===
:''main article: [[EM25]]''
The 25th Birthday of the EM-list happened on Monday, February 15.
== Notation==
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Over the years, participants on the list developed a notation for describing elections using lower-ASCII characters,<ref>"lower ascii" is vernacular for "ISO 646". More information about ISO 646: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_646</ref> 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 to denote [[composite methods]].
Separately, sets of ranked ballots have frequently expressed using a subset of [[ABIF]] over the years.
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