On Monday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections approved 99 student and employee identification cards across the state for use in the 2023 municipal elections and 2024 primary and general elections.
Voters will be asked to show photo ID when voting in the state starting with the municipal elections this fall.
A photo ID requirement was added to the state’s constitution in 2018, but there have been various legal cases against it, the most recent in December 2022. Democrats had held a 4-3 Democratic majority in the N.C. Supreme Court in December.
A 5-2 ruling from the now Republican-led state high court on April 28 overturned the ruling from the same court in December.
Both rulings involved party-line votes from the justices.
The NCSBE responded to the April ruling by preparing to implement the ID law for 2023.
The newly approved IDs include student IDs for all UNC System schools, community colleges, private colleges and universities, employee IDs for other educational institutions, charter schools, and some county governments.
Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation said the student IDs will likely have more of an impact.
“It is especially true for out-of-state students who otherwise would not have an acceptable ID (driver’s licenses from other states are only acceptable if the person had registered to vote within 90 days of the election),” he said. “So, students from, for example, New Jersey or Pennsylvania,...
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