Senator Christopher Bond is criticizing a Senate amendment that effectively puts the blocks on his ideas for election reform. Bond was among a group of Republicans pushing for safeguards from voter cheating in the wake of voting irregularities in St. Louis in 2000 and again last year. His effort would have required those registering to vote for the first time to furnish identification. The amendment put forward by Senator Charles Schumer of New York does away with that requirement. Bond says this amendment, which was approved on a mostly party line vote, “makes it easier to cheat, not just easier to vote.”
