0 as temporary as it is because it only impacts now, we still have the long run, it's important because it gives a court confirming the language that counters the opponents. let me show you your own governor, tom corbett, defending the voter i.d. law back in march when many of us were picking up momentum on this issue. watch this. >> contrary to some claims, this bill does not interfere with anyone's legal right to vote. it prevents people from cheating in our elections. this is a law of prevention. it is to prevent voter fraud. >> so, when the courts came back today, it absolutely goes on the other side of that because they couldn't establish how they were going to make this fair for everyone and people could get their i.d. in time to vote. >> al sharpton, you know when people are making these allegations, they're guilty themselves. when we see voter fraud, we see it play out now. it's a republican operation being investigated and brought before the bar of justice for this activity in florida and some other states you just got finished talking about in your opening. if we want to seek out voter fraud, it should be fraudulent for them to create these kinds of laws to try to stop people from exercising their right. courts have struck them down. we've had great victories in colorado, in iowa, in texas -- >> let's keep going. we have to keep building. thank you, congressman fattah, this is a big victory for voting in your state. thank you for your time here tonight. let me quickly say to credit ibs. we are not get i.d. we are against changing i.d. people will use i.d. to vote but use the same i.d. they always did. it's the new change that was imposed that we're fighting. we are not against i.d. now i want to bring in congressman elijah cummings, he wrote the letter demanding answers into this republican voting fraud scandal surrounding the gop consultant, nathan sprool. >> good to be with you. >> what are you trying to find out? >> i think voteding is a fundamental right we have to protect. it's not a privilege for a selected few. anybody who does anything against that right is absolutely committing a criminal and unpatriotic act and one that i find highly offensive. what we're trying to do, reverend, is get to the bottom of why the national republican party hired this man, who they know has had a history of cheating with regard to voter registration. >> let me stop right there. i want people around the country to understand. the republican national committee hired this man, who had been given allegations before of cheating. >> that's right, that's right. >> and, in fact, he was told, according to him, he was told to start a new group, which he started this summer in june, and he was given a $3 million contract, a brand new group. which clearly looks strange, if he claims he was told by them to do it so it wouldn't look like him. so, he -- it wouldn't look like him and he would do this in swing states, $3 million he was given to do the swing states. they're saying they didn't tell him, but isn't it strange, congressman, to give a multimillion dollar contract to a brand new group if you didn't know who was involved? >> thags that's exactly right. the other interesting thing is he was the exclusive group. they didn't go to anybody else. they went to somebody who had been known in the past to throw away democratic applications for registration, had known to have been submitting fraudulent documents with regard to registration. the thing we are most concerned about here is we believe that he is probably -- he probably -- some of his people actually registered democrats, reverend al, and then probably threw their applications away. at the same time continued to submit all of these fraudulent documents with regard to registration. no elected official, no person has the right to manipulate the system to the benefit of one party. that's basically what the republicans are doing here. >> now, the accusations against strategic allied consulting, which is the firm he formed, to do these jobs and do this work, necessity are allegations like registered dead people as gop voters, registrations contain phoney addresses, similar looking signatures on the forms. as you just said, there was a suspicion they weren't only interested in republicans that would vote for romney. i played the tape last night that someone recorded a young lady that actually said, we're working for romney and do you want to register as a republican? >> so, what we've asked mr mr. sproul to do, we want him to appear in washington on october 12th. we to want see all the documents that the rnc have signed and the contract he has with the rnc with regard to all these states. now, we believe that he has been operating in at least ten states, reverend. and this is some -- these are very, very serious allegations that carry some very serious criminal penalties. we want him to know that we want to get to the bottom of this. we're going to bring him to justice because nobody has the right, nobody has the right, to deny folk the right to vote. >> well, i'm sure that many of your colleagues that are republicans that were screaming when allegations were made against a.c.o.r.n. will be waiting to join you very vocally and vociferously on october 12th. >> we have to be calling on them to sit in the room and grill mr. sproul along with us. >> congressman cumming, thank you for your time this evening. >> thank you. coming up, governor romney is being haunted. no, not by a ghost. by the ghost of the past. the issue is just not going away. >> they look to mitt romney's videotape, that 47% comment, and point to that and say, you lose that campaign, it's because of that event. how damaging was that? >> mitt acknowledged it was an inarticulate way of making a point we've been making in this campaign. >> now paul ryan has his own secret tape about the 30% who want welfare. and eric cantor and the tea party strutted into washington two years ago pushing radical ideas. now they're hiding from their far right agenda. too bad we won't let them. and this race has been the tale of two mitts, but only can show up for tomorrow night's debate. you're watching "politicsnation" on msnbc. snoou. mitt romney has been preparing for the debate by debating a republican senator, who's playing the part of president obama. yeah. meanwhile, president obama has been preparing for romney by debating an atm machine. ally bank. why they're always there to talk. i love you, james. don't you love me? i'm a robot. i know. i know you're a robot! but there's more in you than just circuits and wires! uhhh. (cries) a machine can't give you what a person can. that's why ally has knowledgeable people there for you, night and day. ally bank. your money needs an ally.