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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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 -
In his effort to turn around an apparent electoral loss in the race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court, Republican Jefferson Griffin is seeking to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots, a disproportionate number of them cast by young voters, 18 to 25. -
A Wake County Superior Court judge has ruled against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who is trying to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. But the trial court ruling notwithstanding, the judicial contest is far from over. -
Democratic state lawmakers who served in the military demanded that Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin abandon his attempt to invalidate thousands of ballots, including ones cast by military and overseas voters. -
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that North Carolina's disputed race for a seat on the state Supreme Court must be reviewed in state courts before the matter can go before a federal tribunal. -
A panel of local reporters unpack the week's top stories, including the legal battle for a NC Supreme Court seat, financial help for damage from Hurricane Helene, immigration crackdowns, and the state's first stand-alone children’s hospital. -
Contributors to Jefferson Griffin's legal expense fund include a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which could end up handling Griffin's lawsuit to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in his state Supreme Court race. -
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the uncertified race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court
