Rusty Jacobs
Voting and Election Integrity ReporterRusty Jacobs is WUNC's Voting and Election Integrity Reporter. Rusty started his reporting career in the 1990s at a weekly newspaper in Connecticut. He has been with WUNC since 2001—taking a slight detour from 2007 to 2017 to attend law school at UNC Chapel Hill and then serve as an Assistant District Attorney for Wake County. In his spare time, Rusty plays in a Grateful Dead cover band.
military and overseas voter must now provide photo ID to have their absentee ballots counted in races for state office
A resolution in the state Supreme Court race, six months after Election Day. New oversight at the NC State Board of Elections, with Republicans now in control. And US Senator Thom Tillis breaks again with the president.- Six months after the election, a federal judge has ordered that a contest for the North Carolina should finally be over, in a case that targeted thousands of votes on technical grounds.
The Trump istration's slashing of USAID funds have cut deeply into RTP-based nonprofits dedicated to preventing infectious disease outbreaks.-
The latest in the ongoing saga over NC’s Supreme Court seat. What Republican Jefferson Griffin’s win (for now) with the state appeals court means, and what happens next. WUNC’s Rusty Jacobs fills us in.
Thousands gathered Saturday on Raleigh Bicentennial Plaza across from the North Carolina General Assembly to protest the Trump istration and presidential adviser Elon Musk.-
A majority of a three-judge appeals court has given thousands of voters whose ballots are being challenged 15 days to their eligibility
Attorneys for Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin appeared before a North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday arguing to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in Griffin's race against Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs.
A Democratic lawmaker wants judicial elections in North Carolina determined by nonpartisan contests.
An appeals court judge who could hear Jefferson Griffin's protest over thousands of ballots in his bid for a seat on the state Supreme Court contributed to the GOP candidate's legal expense fund.