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A former North Carolina governor, Republican Pat McCrory, last week said that college students in the state are voting illegally. “In my particular election we had a lot of college students, who were out-of-state college students, vote,” McCrory said. “And they could do it because there was no voter ID which would’ve showed New Jersey license plates, Pennsylvania license plates, you name it … And I couldn’t do a thing about it.” As The News & Observer reported, McCrory was wrong about state law, which explicitly gives college students the right to vote in the county where they are enrolled.
Last week, Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi, was criticized for saying that it would be a “great idea” to make it more difficult for college students to vote.
