Tension between "the voters can't be trusted" and "let's register lots of voters"

[Bricker]

@BrainGlutton

Bricker, would this have something to do with the civic-Calvinist bullshit you posted in this thread back in 2008? Specifically this post.

Sure, I stand behind that post. What I said then was:

@Bricker

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.