North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) is planning to sign into law legislation that will make it more difficult for Tar Heel students to vote in the state in which they attend school, the Huffington Post reported.

The bill, backed by the GOP, will require certain types identification and will no longer allow university-issued ID cards. It will also remove preregistration for 16-and-17-year-old high school students. The bill also cuts early voting times and same-day registration.

"It's clearly targeting student voters," Diana Kasdan, senior counsel at the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, told the Chronicle of Higher Education. "They tend to vote Democratic, and it's a Republican-controlled state legislature that passed it."

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) won North Carolina in the 2012 presidential election, but two-thirds of voters under 30 voted Democrat. The bill will create an extra hurdle for out-of-state students who do not have a driver's license in the state where they attend school.

"What the legislation is essentially saying to students is that even though you live here for the majority of your time, you don't have a say-so in the government," Joshua Vincent, a 30-year-old graduate student at North Carolina Central University, told The Huffington Post. Vincent and five others were arrested while protesting the bill at the state capitol last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed students to vote where they attend college in the past because many students do not wish to re-apply for a driver's license. More than 30 states have passed voting ID laws that adversely affect students. The laws are passed to prevent identification fraud, but critics say such occurrences are very uncommon.

In a press conference Friday, McCrory was asked about the removal of pre-registration for future voters under the age of 18. According to the Associated Press, the Governor admitted to not reading that part of the bill.

"I don't know enough, I'm sorry, I haven't seen that part of the bill," McCrory said.