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Naacp says they are expecting at least a thousand people to come out and protest this new voter i.d. law. the law was signed into effect earlier this year by the republican governor of the state, and it will require voters to submit a government-issued photo i.d. before casting their ballot. now, vote rights groups are concerned that this will disenfranchise voters, specifically certain groups like minorities, the elderly, poor, and students. groups that traditionally support democratic candidates for president. now, there is also a legal challenge to this law. the aclu has filed a lawsuit. th...

Simple. in philadelphia, it could disenfranchise close to one out of five voters. in pennsylvania, one out of ten. and a lot of these voters are older people who don't even have the means or the physical ability to get in to a pen dot office to get their voter i.d. a 91-year-old voter who had voted in 70 straight elections, never had a photo i.d., she went into a pen dot off to get a voter i.d., she had her birth certificate, but that was in her maiden name, and she was now using her married name, they wouldn't accept it. they said get a lawyer and change your name. >> richard, you left out of...

Candidate for president in the last five elections, but many consider it to be a toss-up in this coming election, and people on both sides of the issue think that this issue, voting i.d. laws, can actually have an impact on the outcome of the election. and there was a state republican lawmaker who actually caused quite a bit of controversy by saying pl ining flat-out that tr i.d. laws will allow governor romney to win the state of pennsylvania. of course, proponents of the law say this is strictly about cutting down on voter fraud. >> mara skoochiavocamposchiavoc. as we mentioned, pennsylvan...

Joke. in philadelphia, i mean, in pennsylvania, that's 160,000. if the secretary of state -- >> who can all get an i.d. governor, they can all get an i.d.. >> who many of them don't have the physical ability to get to a voter registration office, number one. >> well, then, they won't have the physical ability -- >> no, they can walk down the block to get to their voting place. they can't go -- often it's a 10, 15-minute drive -- >> it's a red herring, governor. >> stnit isn't a red herring. if, in fact, in eight years there were ten instances of this fraud, why do you need this for. >> answer ...

May face more impediments to actually getting it. things like access to birth records or marriage licenses, people who may have been born in a rural area, people who may have financial limitations that would allow them to go ahead and get that government-issued i.d. so for those reasons, opponents are against this new legislation and that's what this rally here is all about, raising that awareness and expressing their displeasure with what they think is an attempt to disenfranchise people. now, there was also a legal challenge here. the aclu has filed a lawsuit along with some other voting rig...