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Prevent poor voters from being able to participate. let's switch to today's voting processes. under these photo id lays, you now have to get a birthday certificate, usually a certified one with a raised seal. that's $10 to $25. you have to get to the motor vehicle office and get your official state id, the driver's license or state id in which case you're paying another $20 to $35. you're paying a price, a dollar figure, to be able to participate in the electoral process. it's indeed a poll tax. >> e.j. dionne, the pennsylvania voter rights case could become a national test case. the plaintiff...

>> absolutely. as a matter of fact, if we look at how poll taxes were used in the past, we know that poll taxes were used as obstacles to prevent poor voters from being able to participate. let's switch to today's voting processes. under these photo id lays, you now have to get a birthday certificate, usually a certified one with a raised seal. that's $10 to $25. you have to get to the motor vehicle office and get your official state id, the driver's license or state id in which case you're paying another $20 to $35. you're paying a price, a dollar figure, to be able to participate in the elec...

Couple hundred a day. 100, 200 a day. before you guys go, when you go we're going to search you, right? if you have any letters for home boy, any [ bleep ] you're taking out, we're going to take it. okay? if it's your [ bleep ], okay. but if it's somebody else's, we're taking it from you. if this thing's hot you're not going to go, we're going to keep you here and write it up. if they have contraband, if it's serious contraband they won't make it out the door. they'll be violating before they leave and they'll stay in prison. i gave them a heads up that i'll search them so they'll get rid of a...

Before you guys go, when you go we're going to search you, right? if you have any letters for home boy, any [ bleep ] you're taking out, we're going to take it. okay? if it's your [ bleep ], okay. but if it's somebody else's, we're taking it from you. if this thing's hot you're not going to go, we're going to keep you here and write it up. if they have contraband, if it's serious contraband they won't make it out the door. they'll be violating before they leave and they'll stay in prison. i give them a heads up that i'll search them so they'll get rid of all that crap. they try to mail letters...

Him to protect the franchise because it not only effects women, it effects women, it effects hispanics, it effects the poor. >> help us understand why is showing photo i.d. discriminatory. >> i'm someone who does not drive. yes, i do not drive. i lived in new york for a long time. at least -- i did live here for aening lo time. that having been said, when you have to go to the department of motor vehicles, they do not have dmv offices across the county they do not. they are not open on weekends in many places it can be very very difficult. >> a license can be burdensome. >> getting a license c...