Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Hockaday ID | Judge: Misch OConnell
a. uniqueness
Continuing resolution will pass— key Republicans are causing gridlock but strong leadership is uniting the party
Ashley Killough, reporter, 8/4/13
CNN, “GOP lawmakers split on threat to shut down government over Obamacare”, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/04/gop-lawmakers-split-over-threatening-to-shut-down-government-over-obamacare/, VJ
(CNN) - After members of Congress... was in the room.
b. link
The plan is unpopular with republicans, distracts leadership and causes fractures in the republican party.
Eric Liu, author, educator and civic entrepreneur the curator of Citizen University, a conference on creative citizenship, and the True Patriot Network, dedicated to promoting progressive civic values. Liu served as a White House speechwriter and the deputy domestic-policy adviser to President Clinton, August 21, 2012“Should Voting Be Mandatory?”, http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/21/should-voting-be-mandatory/JD
Some Republicans will... day Republicans could benefit.

Republicans oppose the plan, convincing them not to will likely fracture the republican party
Peter Orszag, Vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and chairman of the financial strategy and solutions group at Citigroup, he was President Obama's director of the Office of Management and Budget. Orszag was previously the director of the Congressional Budget Office, from 2007 to 2008. He served in two different jobs in the Clinton administration, as a senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisors from 1995 to 1996 and, in 1997, as top adviser to the director of the National Economic Council. He has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and a B.A. in economics from Princeton University. An adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he lives in Manhattan, June 19th 2012“Make Voting Mandatory”, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-19/voting-should-be-mandatory.htmlJD
One concern -- voiced... to be minimal.

CONGRESS OPPOSES UNIVERSAL TURNOUT
Peter A. Beinart, Yale University, 1989, "The Real American Voting Problem," Polity, Vol. 22(1), Autumn, p. 152
The more important... the ball field."

If Boehner passes the aff it kills credibility because it is detrimental to the welfare of the republican party.
C. internal link
Government shutdown causes cyber terror
Headlines, news organization, 4/7/11
Infosec, “Government Shutdown Could Impact Cyber Security”, http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/12807-Government-Shutdown-Could-Impact-Cyber-Security.html, VJ
A government shutdown... them," said Tipton.

Cyber-attacks escalate, cause retaliation, and misattribution
Richard Clarke, special adviser to the president for cybersecurity in the George W. Bush administration. He is now chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, 11/12-09, “War From Cyberspace,” The National Interest, http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/zselden/coursereading2011/Clarkecyber.pdf E. Liu
We sit at... spoof- ing the source.

Retaliation goes nuclear
Lawson 09 (5/13, Dr. Sean Lawson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, “Cross-Domain Response to Cyber Attacks and the Threat of Conflict Escalation,” Transformation Tracker,http://www.seanlawson.net/?p=477)
The authors of a... a massive cyberattack.

D. Impacts

Nuclear war will result in human extinction.
Sagan 85 (Carl Astrophysicist Prof  “Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter,” Commonwealth Club)AQB
Now, if you... are these results?

E. implication
We need to prevent extinction—existential risks are not trial and error process

Nick Bostrom ‘02, Department of Philosophy, Yale University, 2002, “Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards,” http://www.transhumanist.com/volume9/risks.html  vkoneru
Our approach to... discount future benefits 15,16.

Extinction precludes all values
Seely 86, Robert A., Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, The Handbook of Non-Violence, p. 269-70
In moral reasoning... sane moral code.

Debating nuclear war scenarios is key to stave off actual nuclear war
Harvard Nuclear Study Group ‘83, 1983 (“Living With Nuclear Weapons,” p. 47)
The question is... not been foreseen.

Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Flower Mound JT | Judge: Tyler Levy
TEXT: The USFG should increase voter turnout through allowing same day registration, making it easy for voters to change parties, make voting easier through hiring better poll workers and establishing more polling sites, make early voting accessible in all states and allow mail in votes.
The CP increase access to polls and improves democracy

Jerry H. Goldfeder ‘13, practices election and campaign finance law at Stroock and Stroock and Lavan LLP. He teaches Election Law at Fordham Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is the author of Goldfeder’s Modern Election Law, now in its Third Edition. “Jerry Goldfeder: Improve Voter Turnout By Modernizing New York’s Election Law, 04/09/2013 AG
New York State’s... the voters decide?