strunkenwhite
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"Get out TO vote" is a totally different phrase, though. This is "get out THE vote" (collective noun, implying "voters")No, "get out to vote," makes sense in english "get the vote out" doesn't
Now that Buba mentions it, it does seem to me that if I were to construct the phrase from scratch with no historical precedent I'd probably say "get the vote out", but both seem fine to me and there's definitely nothing about either of them that suggests preventing people from voting. "Get out", meaning "go away", doesn't to my recollection generally combine with other things in that way.
Sometimes English seems to have more than one acceptable word order, such as "give me that" vs "give that to me".