Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required). It begins: “Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) said Tuesday that he would continue to publicize Democratic-sponsored legislation intended to guarantee absentee voting privileges to Gulf Coast residents displaced by recent hurricanes in an attempt to gain Republican backing for the bill. The legislation introduced in mid-September, the Displaced Citizens Voter Protection Act of 2005, has gained 38 co-sponsors. But so far, only Democrats have signed on.”