Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Salado IH | Judge: Ryan Graham
The value is democratic legitimacy

The Standard is maintaining avenues for dissent. 

First, dissent is necessary to provide a check on tyrann.
Elizabeth Anderson John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Womenand#39;s Studies at the Universiy of Michigan. “The Epistemology of Democracy” Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology, Volume 3, Issue 1-2, 2006, pp. 8-22

Diversity and disagreement are…weaknesses in political decision-making.

Second, dissent is necessary for the process of democratic deliberation. 

Amartya Sen Thomas W Larmont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University “Democracy as a Universal Value “Journal of Democracy 10.3 (1999) 3-17

Viewed in this light,…are permitted or not.

Third, it’s key to realizing freedom

Lawrence B. Solum Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow, Loyola Law School. “Book Review The Value of Dissent.” 85 Cornell L. Rev. 859-881 (2000) (reviewing Steven H. Shiffrin, Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America (1999)) AJ

What is the relevance of…with the dissenters.
I contend that compulsory voting closes off legitimate avenues of political dissent. 

First, abstention must be respected

Hill 02 LISA HILL. University of Adelaide. “Compulsory Voting: Residual Problems and Potential Solutions.” Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 437–455. 2002. Carfax Publishing, Taylor and Francis Group AJ
First, one of my key arguments…it is true, but because it potentially quali?? es as a political objection.25 

High participation masks illegitimate governments

Czesnik 6 (Mikolaj, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences) “Voter Turnout and Democratic Legitimacy in Central Eastern Europe” Polish Sociological Review, No. 156 (2006), pp. 449-470 Published by: Polish Sociological Association http://www.jstor.org/stable/41274988

The relation between political participation and…vehicle of its de-legitimation. 

Second, compulsory voting masks dissent

Rovensky 8 (Jan, MA in Political Science and English and American Studies at Charles University Prague, Graduate of Doctoral Program in Political Theoy at LUISS Guido Carli) “Voting: A Citizen’s Right, or Duty?” Free International University of Social Studies Guido Carli, School of Political Science, Doctorate in Political Theory – PhD Thesis
Measuring the level of…protest and random votes.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Salado IH | Judge: Ryan Graham
Text - All actors of the aff world will retain present laws on voluntary voting, but will implement the following changes to their voting systems, if they have not already been implemented. 

1. weekend voting
   2. mail-in voting
   3. ranking system

Competition – Voluntary voting is by definition mutually exclusive with the aff. All other planks compete through net benefits. 

Solvency: 

Mail, advance, and proxy voting make voting easier – it raised turnout 10
Blais et al 03 André Blais, Louis Massicotte, Agnieszka Dobrzynska. All authors from Montreal University. “Why is Turnout Higher in Some Countries than in Others?” Environment Canada, 2003 

(The) "ease of voting"... none are available

Weekend voting raises turnout 5-6
Keaney and Rogers 06 Emily Keaney and Ben Rogers. “A Citizen’s Duty Voter inequality and the case for compulsory turnout.” Institute for Public Policy Research. May 2006

Multivariate analysis of... of weekend voting

Turnout is 5-6 higher in proportional rep systems
Blais et al 03 André Blais, Louis Massicotte, Agnieszka Dobrzynska. All authors from Montreal University. “Why is Turnout Higher in Some Countries than in Others?” Environment Canada, 2003 

Turnout is 5... including small ones

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Colleyville Heritage RK | Judge: Jared Woods
V: morality

S: maximizing well-being

First, consequences are the only morally relevant determination since they’re the only form of value we can experience.
Sam Harris 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy.  The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.” ... all questions of... suffer his wrath

Outweighs
a. Experience precludes
b. motivations

Second, if there’s even a risk of ethical uncertainty, we should always prioritize the survival of the human race to ensure future value.
Bostrom Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” Global Policy (2012) ... moral uncertainty suggests... will contain value

Third: The universizability of rules, drawing from basic assumptions of equality in addition to Kantian views of freedom, mandates the equal satisfaction of preferable end states.
R. M. Hare White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. “Universal Prescriptivism.” Originally published in Peter Singer, A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Publishers, 1991) ... unless I treat... the ends of (myself)

Taxes DisAd

Uniqueness: The US economy is recovering steadily, but is still vulnerable.
Economic Times 8/2 “US economy recovering from worst downturn: White House.” Aug 2, 2013, 09.40PM IST. Economic Times. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-02/news/41008276_1_unemployment-rate-lowest-level-alan-b-krueger ... The US economy... impose self-inflicted wounds

Link: CV results in redistributive policies like progressive taxes, since the average preference of the electorate shifts to the ideological left.
Carey and Horiuchi 13 John M. Carey (John Wentworth Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Government, Dartmouth College). Yusaku Horiuchi (Associate Professor and Mitsui Chair in the Study of Japan, Department of Government, Dartmouth College). Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality. Prepared for presentation in a seminar on Latin American Politics in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University on April 23, 2013, and a seminar in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College on April 30, 2013 ... the poor prefer... the median voter

Social redistribution programs, especially progressive taxation, kill business activity – a vast literature verifies that taxes in general hurt growth.
Keating 10 Raymond J. Keating. Chief Economist of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council. “Small Business Survival Index 2010: Ranking the Policy Environment for Entrepreneurship Across the Nation.” 15th Annual Edition, December 2010. Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council ... marginal tax rates... than high tax states

Even the smallest link will matter – small businesses are vulnerable due to high tax rates in the status quo.
Winograd 8/8 David Winograd. “Some Small Businesses Pay Tax Rates More Than Double Those Of Large Corporations: Study.” Huffington Post. 8/8/2013 ... two of the most... percent S corporations pay

Small businesses are the major creators of jobs and trade – if they go down, the economy goes down with them.
Clark and Saade 10 L. Clark III and Radwan Saade - September 2010. The Role of Small Business in Economic Development of the United States: From the End of the Korean War (1953) to the Present. SBA Office of Advocacy ... Ninety-seven percent of... from small businesses

Economic collapse causes global wars.
Royal 10 (Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense) “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215 ...rhythms in the... force are correlated