Leave it to republicans to try to pass this with a rat governor. Why couldn't they do this in 2002 when there was a pub governor?
Because the Republican party in PA is run by the "ghost of Bob Michel." (Remember him? That nice friendly smiling get-along to go-along Republican that ran the perpetual minority, the Republicans, in the House of Representatives prior to '94.) Tom Ridge was no more interested in allowing conservatives to run the party or to challenge Democrat voter fraud than Rendell is. In PA Republicrats run things.