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>> we're back with the republican effort to suppress the vote in pennsylvania. they signed a strict voter id. joining me is a 93-year-old voter from philadelphia that marred with martin luther king jr., but cannot vote for the first time in 50 years because of the new voter id law, she is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed this week challenging that law. also with me the codirector of the advancement project with joined to file the lawsuit. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. tell me your story, vivian, how is this law keeping you from voting? >> because i don't have the id,

State id, which i would have to get it. and i don't have a birth certificate. >> can you have been voting now for 50 years. the id you have used has been all right, but now the new id that is required, you can't make that qualification or reach that bar because you don't have a birth certificate? >> that's right, that's correct. >> now you marched with martin luther king for the right to vote. did you ever think you would come 50 years later and be denied the right to vote? >> i never heard anything like this in my whole entire life. never expected it. >> it's not that you did not use id throu...

New voter id requirement. we're not talking about people not identifying themselves, we're saying why is it important to have new id, you always qualified with your id, it's new laws giving you the problem. >> just the new laws, everything about this i will not be able to vote because i definitely do not have the qualifications that they want. and expect me to have. >> let me play for you your governor in pennsylvania defending the voter id laws in pennsylvania, watch this. >> contrary to some claims, this bill does not interfere with anyone's legal right to vote. >> he says that it won't inte...

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 it's anything hot, you're not going to go, we're going to keep you here and write you 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 home to their home boy. the ...

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 give them a heads up that i'll search them so they'll get rid of all that crap. they try...