"If vetoes are like slapshot goals in hockey, then Gov. Tim Pawlenty scored an election-reform hat trick last week. After vetoing motor-voter and felon-notification, he scotched the state Legislature’s big omnibus elections bill...[which] would have made dozens of improvements to the current system....All fell to Pawlenty’s veto pen because the bill didn’t meet Republicans’ demand for new photo-ID requirements. 'Omnibus election bills making changes to our election process should be bipartisan. Unfortunately, this bill fails that test,' Pawlenty wrote." Mike Dean, from Common Cause, pointed out that the Minnesota Republicans' insistence on language mandating that prospective voters present photo identification "was itself patently partisan."