Corbett eliminates online registration and absentee ballot requests because its "too much to handle" for elections officials.
Here's Department of State Commissioner Jonathan Marks, "Paper voter registrations and paper applications for absentee ballots have been used by election offices in all 67 counties for years," Marks said in the e-mail. "Voters and election workers are familiar and comfortable with both. We are confident that this system will continue to work well."
Of course, Pennsylvanians in all 67 counties have been voting without photo ID for years as well, without any cases of fraud, but creating an entirely new requirement in order vote, a requirement that doesn't address any known problem, isn't at all "too much to handle."
If there were still any question at all that this entire exercise is an effort to suppress voters who might trend democratic, you have your answer.