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.
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Thousands gathered Saturday on Raleigh Bicentennial Plaza across from the North Carolina General Assembly to protest the Trump Administration and presidential adviser Elon Musk. -
A majority of a three-judge appeals court panel has given thousands of voters whose ballots are being challenged 15 days to verify their eligibility -
Attorneys for Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin appeared before a North Carolina Court of Appeals panel 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. -
Former local elections directors from across the state and ex-military officials and service members' spouses have filed briefs against Jefferson Griffin in his legal battle to turn around his electoral loss in a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. -
In addition to silencing the voices of legitimate voters, Griffin's effort to invalidate thousands of ballots in his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court could threaten public trust in the judiciary. -
Some 60,000 North Carolinians’ ballots are being challenged by the Republican candidate for a state Supreme Court Justice seat. Due South learns who those voters are, and how they feel about their ballots being challenged. -
Republican Jefferson Griffin wants to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots in his attempt to turn around his apparent electoral loss in a race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. -
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who trails in his race against Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 734 votes, wants more than 60,000 ballots invalidated because of alleged incomplete voter registrations
