year of all the boards of elections across the state, they used that control immediately to do something about this pesky student voting by trying to make sure there could be less of it. they've not been subtle about this. last month the newly republican board in watauga voted to roll all three of the boone precincts into one superprecinct. north carolina elections guidance say precincts should have something like 1,500 people. the one they made in boone would have over 9,000 people in it. one big precinct. under the new plan, appalachian state student voters would cast their ballots not at the convenient polling place they've long had on campus, the one they're used to but instead at a single polling place down this long road with no sidewalk. >> got to be careful. this right here, this median or shoulder, actually, i'm sorry, is the sidewalk. there is no other place to walk, so it's either this median, or this shoulder or the tall grass. this is not a sidewalk at all. see here we actually have to step on the road. my shoes i'm wearing would not work with this at all. it's really not in good