# Get-out-the-vote and voter suppression are not equally legitimate political tactics

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**Created:** [October 22, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-the-vote-and-voter-suppression-are-not-equally-legitimate-political-tactics/469089 "2008-10-22T18:03:07Z")
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### Author: ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-the-vote-and-voter-suppression-are-not-equally-legitimate-political-tactics/469089/4 "2008-10-22T18:18:05Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Yes.
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> Aren’t you?
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> So what? They’re still right and suppressors still wrong.

No. “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”

I think there’s value in making the vote require some effort, some small sacrifice – something that never places it out of reach, but puts a price on it. Not a price paid vicariously, either; a personal price – time to stand in line at the polls, time to Xerox your license and mail it in, whatever. I don’t view these measures as inherently wrong.

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