The ruling from the Court of Appeals is a victory for Republicans, who had sued the State Board of Elections over its decision to allow the digital IDs.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a lower court’s decision to accept the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s mobile One Card as valid voter identification. The ruling supported the plaintiff’s argument that the digital ID would make it easier for ineligible voters to cast ballots and violate a state

A North Carolina appeals court has blocked students and employees at the state’s flagship public university from providing a school's digital identification when voting to comply with a new photo ID mandate.

GOP successfully appeals lower court ruling, halts use of University of North Carolina student mobile IDs to vote, weeks ahead of election.