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The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has launched a lawsuit challenging a state law that requires voters to show photo identification before they are allow to cast their ballot, claiming that residents who have voted for decades will be disenfranchised. Plaintiff who marched with Martin Luther King lacks documentation required to vote in November Law expected to turn poor, minority, elderly and college-aged voters away from polling places Estimates of how many people to be affected range from 80,000 …