Voter ID

A North Carolina trial judge has refused to block students and employees at the state's flagship public university from being able to show a digital identification to comply with a largely new photo ID law.

The North Carolina elections board on Tuesday approved the first digital identification that can be used to meet state voter ID requirements, signing off on mobile credentials offered to students a

Both sides made closing arguments Monday in a federal court case that could decide if the state’s voter ID law continues as is.

Rev. William Barber II echoed concerns that measures including the photo ID requirement are targeted to weaken minority voting. 

The second day of the NAACP's lawsuit over North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law saw four witnesses take the stand at Winston-Salem's Middle District federal courthouse.

A trial over a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's photo voter identification law has started. The trial began in Winston-Salem on Monday, more than five years after the NAACP sued over the voter ID law enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly.

A federal trial over North Carolina's photo voter identification law remains set for May after a judge refused Wednesday to end efforts by civil rights groups that sued over the requirement on allegations that its provisions are marred by racial bias.