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This time in pennsylvania, where up to one million people may not have the id needed to vote come november. nbc's mara schiavocampo has been following the story. how did we get to the point where one million pennsylvanians may show up on election day only to find out they don't have the acceptable id? >> this report was commissioned in for use in the lawsuit against pennsylvania. they want the injunction to keep this law from going into effect come november. what the report found is there are a large number of voters who think they have the right id but they don't. this is different from prior...

People according to the study who think that they have a prper id and they don't. in addition to that, you have about 379,000 people who don't have the underlying documents they need to get an id. so they don't have, for example, a birth certificate, or their social security card, the actual copy of their social security card. we're talking about really substantial numbers. and the groups of people who are most likely to be affected by this are the elderly, the poor, people living in urban areas, people who are younger voters, minorities, and these are groups that traditionally support the dem...

The right id. and this group is of particular concern to voting rights groups, because they're ones that are most likely to find out they have a public on election day. because if you don't know you have a problem, you can't address it. they think they're in compliance already. once they get to the polls and realize there is a problem, they can cast a provisional ballot, but they have to return within six days with proof of id. anyone who has dealt with trying to get an id knows it often take morse than that time. so that's what we're dealing with right now. that's what the numbers show. >> in...