Those questions about the student vote sparked the creation of the Student Voting Rights Lab, a joint class of students at Duke University and North Carolina Central University examining provisional ballots and barriers for student voters in the state. While the number of provisional ballots cast by all voters in the state grew by 25,000 compared with 2020, the number of provisional ballots among youth voters dropped slightly. The Student Voting Rights Lab and other groups’ efforts to educate students on how to avoid casting provisional ballots leading up to the election were likely part of the reason young people cast fewer votes that way this cycle, Peck told The Assembly.