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

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tension-between-the-voters-cant-be-trusted-and-lets-register-lots-of-voters/560081
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [November 9, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tension-between-the-voters-cant-be-trusted-and-lets-register-lots-of-voters/560081 "2010-11-09T20:11:57Z")
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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: [November 10, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tension-between-the-voters-cant-be-trusted-and-lets-register-lots-of-voters/560081/47 "2010-11-10T14:38:44Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> **Bricker,** would this have something to do with the civic-Calvinist bullshit you posted in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=489075) thread back in 2008? Specifically [this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10346755&postcount=4)

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

> [@Get-out-the-vote and voter suppression are not equally legitimate political tactics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-out-the-vote-and-voter-suppression-are-not-equally-legitimate-political-tactics/469089/4):
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> No. “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”
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> 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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