Speaking with MSNBC's Chuck Todd on Wednesday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory defended the recent changes to his state's early voting policy, saying that he and fellow GOP lawmakers did not shorten the early voting period but rather "compacted the calendar."

"First of all, we didn't shorten early voting, we compacted the calendar," McCrory said to Todd. "But we're going to have the same hours in which polls are open in early voting, and we're going to have more polls available. So it's going to be almost identical. It's just the schedule has changed. The critics are kind of using that line when, in fact, the legislation does not shorten the hours for early voting."

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McCrory is right in a technical sense; the aggregate number of voting hours available is unaffected by the law. But this provision was inserted by Democrats, and what's more has nothing to do with the seven full days of early voting that the law removed — or the law's banning of pre- and same-day registration for voters.

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