Graduate student Teague Henry called the deadline ridiculous.
“It seems overly restrictive to me,” he said. “I’m a fan of on-site voter registration. A lot of states do that, so why not here?”
Henry said he thinks the deadline is going to prevent students and especially low-income people from voting.
“Because it ... takes time (to register to vote), and 25 days before the election, you’re not really thinking of the election. You have to be kind of on board with that,” he said.
Henry said it was a shame no one was registering students to vote in the Pit so soon before the deadline.
“The North Carolina voter board or the Board of Elections is fully up for doing voter registration drives,” Henry said.
“They provide the resources. They provide the forms. They provide all of that. And I’m a bit concerned that there’s no student groups trying to get people registered to vote on campus.”
First-year Kate Aberman said she is in the process of registering to vote online in time for the March primary.