prompted at least one legal group to tweet at the doj, and the problems don't stop there. election officials said 80% of absentee votes in one county were disqualified because of a lack of identification wrfsh this wree minded some of painful time in the not so distant past. >> once upon a time we weren't allowed. they wouldn't count it. it was just like being ignored and being, well, unimportant. the question is with voter id laws in effect in more than half the country, are we moving backwards instead of forward? zach roth covers voting rights for msnbc.com. to clarify, the voter id law was legitimately in place at the time that these things weren't taking place at the poles, right? >> it was legitimately in place because, as you said, the rulings against it were put on hold, but it wasn't enforced properly, as you explained in