Senate Closes in on Election Reform Bill (washingtonpost.com)

This is an interesting little artifact in the history of political maneuvering. Does anyone really doubt that the refusal of the Dems to include the anti-fraud provisions, requiring a first time voter to produce some evidence of identity, was the opposite of a poison pill. You take out something that you know will stir up opposition to the main bill. Then you can campaign on the fact that they, not you, killed a popular bill. This story says they've backed off. Apparently their argument that including this provision would prevent ("disenfranchise") millions of legitimate voters from being able to do so. But not including it would leave the way wide open for more voter fraud, as many commentators have pointed out. Of course, the voters who were outraged in Florida weren't smart enough to see that.

We'll see.