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 I

North Carolina’s State Board of Elections says a mobile phone identification is acceptable for the state’s voter ID law. The state and national Republican organizations on Thursday in court said it is not.

The North Carolina State Elections Board will decide Tuesday for the first time whether to accept a digital version of a student ID as an acceptable photo voter ID. The board has never approved a digital ID in the past,