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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...

Stand up when we're talking about a new voting rights bill, when we see in states all over the country changing in voting from changing early voting, changing sunday voting, changing voting i.d. to now photo i.d., are we not hearing in many ways certain things that lead to the same results that was more blatant by jesse helms but is in many ways moving toward the same direction? >> you know, you're right, reverend sharpton. but no one is going to pull ted cruz's coattail. just as they did with trent lott. they're not going to ask him to take a back seat. in fact, they're going to celebrate and...

Representatives there. you look at a state, for instance, like south carolina. it isn't only expanding voting i.d. laws. they're making it difficult to vote. they're discussing in south carolina a bill that would make it harder for disabled people to vote, that would essentially say if you're disabled, you have to get a note from your doctor to get an absentee ballot. there are all sorts of measures going on. i think we're going to have a long, hot summer about the culture wars in many ways. that's what this voting rights act is about. >> you mentioned some of the signs of bipartisanship we ar...

What you voted for in 2006 included the formula. if you thought it was 50-year-old data and a bad formula, why vote for it? >> i didn't want to throw out the whole bill. at the time we decided to continue it because a lot of it is good. >> but the point is -- to get back to the point, it's not 50-year-old data. we're talking about what goes on now. the voting i.d. laws, manifestly unjust, and the way racial je y gerrymandering as occurred in texas and florida and south carolina. we're not talking about having the ghost of mississippi or alabama or georgia assert themselves. we're talking about...