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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Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin's protests over more than 60,000 ballots got nowhere before the North Carolina State Board of Election, but he will likely appeal in state court -
With a statewide machine recount completed, incumbent Democrat Allison Riggs holds a 734-vote lead over Republican Jefferson Griffin, who is entitled to a partial hand-to-eye recount from randomly selected precincts and early-voting sites in all of North Carolina's 100 counties
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Republican Jefferson Griffin has filed protests challenging more than 60,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, in which he currently trails Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 625 votes
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Rep. Ken Fontenot, a Republican, has filed a protest over his election loss to Democrat Dante Pittman in the race for North Carolina House District 24. The Wilson County Board of Elections dismissed Fontenot's protest in a preliminary hearing on Friday. -
If the margin in a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains below 8,000 votes, the runner-up could demand a recount. -
Republican Jefferson Griffin leads Democrat incumbent Justice Allison Riggs in a race for a seat on the state Supreme Court by fewer than 10,000 votes, with many thousands of provisional ballots still to process
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Jeff Tiberii chats with WUNC's Rusty Jacobs and Mitchell Northam about what could happen at polling stations across the state and what to expect after election results are in. -
The 2024 presidential contest and other major political races are coming to a climax; North Carolina sits among the most contested of battleground states as the final votes are cast. -
As of Friday, more than 4 million, or 51%, of North Carolina's registered voters had already cast ballots by mail or in-person during the early voting period, which ends Saturday, Nov. 2 at 3 p.m. -
Republicans sued to remove approximately 225,000 voters from North Carolina's rolls and to block some overseas voters from casting ballots.
