[EM] guilty until proven innocent

[James Green-Armytage]

Mike wrote:
>If you were a gossip-columnist, and wv were a movie actor, what you're
>doing 
>would be called "inuendo".
...
>If you have, or later have, an example in which wv gives a result more 
>undesirable than IRV can give, then post it. Until then, however, this is
>as 
>if someone posted flyers all around your place of work, saying "Is James 
>really a _________?, even though we don't have proof yet?" [fill in
>whatever 
>kind of especially despicable criminal you want to].
>
	Good point. People should always be assumed to be innocent until proven
guilty. However, with voting methods, the opposite is true. They must be
assumed to be assumed to be worse than the status quo until it can be very
conclusively demonstrated that they are better. Or, they should be assumed
to have every conceivable problem until it can be conclusively
demonstrated that they don't have that problem. Why? Because the integrity
of the voting system is a very serious thing to risk.

Sincerely,
James