State law does not prevent UNC-Chapel Hill students from using their university-issued mobile identification cards as voter ID, a Wake County judge ruled Thursday. State and national Republicans sued the state Board of Elections over its party-line approval of UNC-Chapel Hill’s mobileOne cards as acceptable identification for use at the polls.

There’s a legal fight going on over whether UNC Chapel-Hill digital IDs that live on student, staff and faculty phones are legitimate IDs that can be used for voting. Democrats say they are. Republicans say they aren’t.