On Tuesday, a strict new voter ID law went into effect in North Carolina, one of 21 states where Republican legislatures have enacted such laws since the 2010 election. North Carolina will also be one of 15 states were the laws will be tested for the first time in a presidential election, and millions of voters — mostly students, minorities, and low-income voters — will likely be left out in the cold this November, Seth Meyers said on Thursday's Late Night. That's a big deal, he added. "In 2008, Barack Obama won North Carolina by just over 14,000 votes; 218,000 votes could literally be the difference between President Hillary Clinton and Glorious Beloved Leader Donald Trump — all praise to him and his magnificent hands."
Even Republican backers of these laws admit voter fraud isn't a big issue, Meyers said. "The overreaction to this total non-problem has been so insane that one 86-year-old, who's been voting since the Eisenhower era, could not obtain proper ID despite presenting her expired New Hampshire driver's license, two different birth certificates, a Social Security card, a Medicare card, and her apartment lease because the name on her birth certificate, Reba Witner Miller, did not perfectly match the name on her current documents, Reba M. Bowser, following her marriage in 1950." Watch below to hear Meyers argue against voter ID laws and bungle an otherwise pretty good Ikea joke. Peter Weber
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