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Yesterday Barack Obama offered legislation aimed at discouraging voter intimidation.
The bill, titled "The Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2005" would impose a fine of $100,000 and/or 1 year in jail on anyone caught trying to prevent voters from casting their ballots using deceptive practices. Perhaps as importantly it tasks the Attorney General with following up on these complaints and rectifying their effects.
This should be good news to all Democrats, and indeed all Americans, who remember the "Milwaukee Black Voters League", the Ohio mailings, the postings in Alabama, or the fake letter from the NAACP in South Carolina.
It's a start, and one that all Americans should have no trouble getting behind.