Rusty Jacobs
Voting and Election Integrity ReporterRusty Jacobs is WUNC's Voting and Election Integrity Reporter. He previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007. He returned to WUNC in 2017 after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at UNC-Chapel Hill and then served as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.
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Major changes are likely coming to North Carolina's voting rules. A bill would eliminate a three-day grace period for counting mail ballots and expand access for partisan poll watchers.
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Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have passed a bill to tighten voting access, and may now override the Democratic governor's veto of that legislation.
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Despite their opposition to the bill, Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly worked with Republican bill sponsors on trying to soften the legislation's impact on the state's election system.
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A lawyer who helped try to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results has links to efforts to help shape a sweeping elections bill in North Carolina
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The bill would trigger major changes, including eliminating a three-day grace period for counting mail-in ballots.
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A House committee has made changes to a major elections bill already passed by the Senate. Now, lawmakers from both chambers will have to reconcile their differences.
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Republicans in North Carolina and Democrats in New York are preparing to redraw political maps. The resulting boundaries could yield off-setting results in the 2024 Congressional elections.
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State Board of Elections Executive Director Karen Brinson Bell addressed the North Carolina House Oversight and Reform Committee last week.
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Sweeping changes to North Carolina elections law have been approved in a party-line vote in the state Senate. The legislation now heads to the House.
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A Senate committee debated GOP measures that would alter rules governing North Carolina elections.