On the campus of AB Tech students are trickling back for the fall semester. Beyond the looming, marathon study sessions and exams is concern over a new requirement of the Voter I.D. bill signed into law Monday. Students now have to show a government I.D. to vote. “It kind of doesn’t make sense at all, actually,” said Takidra Young. Young’s college doesn’t count even though AB Tech is a state-run college. “I disagree with that,” said AB Tech student Brock Thurber. Just because it’s an inconvenience to the student.” Said Young, “it doesn’t make sense because you have to use a government I.D. to get the student I.D. anyway.”
Karen Oelschlaeger represents the League of Women Voters, the lead plantiff in a lawsuit to stop North Carolina’s Voter I.D. “This one really takes the cake,” she said to News 13’s Mario Boone. “This one really is being described as the absolute worse. The most exreme.”
NC Voter I.D. is attracting nationwide attention. Supporters of the law say it will eliminate fraud in elections. But others, including state Attorney General Roy Cooper and Senator Kay Hagan, have denounced it.
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