The _Aggregated Ballot Information Format_ provides a concise, aggregated, text-based document to describe the ballots cast in range-based or ranked elections, as well as approval-based and choose-one balloting systems.
I'm going to hold off on merging this pull request. As much as Perl makes me sentimental for the old days, I'm not sure I want to take on maintaintership of a Perl codebase that I didn't write (at least, not yet)
beginnings of a parser library in Perl.