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State Board of Elections sets more dates for voter photo ID approval

The North Carolina State Board of Elections has announced an application period for universities and government agencies to ensure their student and employee photo IDs are approved for use in the 2024 elections. 

The elections board will be accepting new applications for eligible institutions from November 13 through December 15.

The effort is in response to a new law requiring North Carolina’s registered voters to present valid photo identification at the polls. Student and employee ID cards must be approved by the state board.

In July, the board gave the OK to nearly 100 institutional ID cards, covering students and staff for all UNC System schools.

Many other types of photo identification, including driver’s licenses can be used at the polls.

Residents who do not provide acceptable identification will be asked to fill out a Photo ID Exception Form and submit a provisional ballot.

Those who wish to vote by mail will be asked to provide a photocopy of their ID with their ballot.

Approved voter ID cards will be valid through the end of 2024. 

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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