- Voter ID law hinders some college students: In [North Carolina's] first use of the voter ID law, some college students’ ballots may end up filling the discard piles. As of Friday, 717 people had cast provisional ballots because they didn’t have acceptable photo identification. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article65707942.html#storylink=cpy 5 comments politics