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Able to vote. 699,877, eh, maybe not. happy election eve. good luck voting. you might need it. joining us now is congressman mark visi of texas, one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit contesting texas's voter i.d. law. he was a part of the legislature when that passed in 2011. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> tomorrow's going to be the first statewide test of the i.d. law in texas on election day. we've already seen one of the implications of early voting. one in four voters in texas need to file an affidavit to get their vote counted. how are you feeling about electi...

Happy election eve. good luck voting. you might need it. joining us now is congressman mark visi of texas, one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit contesting texas's voter i.d. law. he was a part of the legislature when that passed in 2011. thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you, rachel. >> tomorrow's going to be the first statewide test of the i.d. law in it xotexas on election d. we've already seen one of the implications of early voting. one in four voters in texas need to file an affidavit to get their vote counted. how are you feeling about election day in your home state? >> rache...

Within hours of the ruling, texas attorney general praised the voting rights decision and announced the state's voter i.d. law which was blocked by a federal court last year would "take effect immediately." that law is only one of two voting laws that have been blocked by federal courts in texas over the last year. now, given the state's proclivity to passing restrictive voting laws, it should come as no shock that today's step from the obama justice department has set off a flurry of angry responses from texas officials. including governor rick perry who said of the announcement, "once again,...

Arkansas, in ohio, in montana, in north dakota, in michigan, in wyoming. all these places you wouldn't necessarily expect it, but it's happening at a homegrown grassroots level. this is now a state-by-state fight in every state for the right to marry. just as it is a state-by-state fight in every state for the right to vote. yesterday in texas, a democratic congressman sued the state of texas over the voter i.d. law that until a few days ago was too racist for the federal government to let it go forward. he is now asking the court to block that law again. joining us now is mark visi, congressm...