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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A lawsuit filed this week claims a newly drawn state Senate district map violates federal Voting Rights Act protections for Black voters.
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Former North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn faced a candidate challenge similar to cases seeking to block Donald Trump from ballots in 2024.
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Republicans are set to gain at least three congressional seats, under a new map approved by North Carolina lawmakers.
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The Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly approved GOP-drawn district maps for congressional races and state legislative seats.
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Republicans could pick up at least three Congressional seats in 2024 and hold onto their state legislative super majorities under new political district maps.
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Republicans in the majority of the North Carolina General Assembly have released proposed maps for state Legislative and U.S. Congressional districts
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The GOP-led North Carolina General Assembly just completed a run of public comment sessions on the drawing of new Congressional and state legislative district maps.
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GOP-led House passed a Republican-backed bill to take appointment power over the state elections board away from the governor
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Through a host of changes to North Carolina elections law, redistricting and a sympathetic state Supreme Court majority, Republican legislators could entrench their hold on power for the next decade.
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The bill has raised concerns among voting rights advocates and Democrats in the GOP-controlled state legislature. Among the changes the bill would make, voted ballots and something called cast vote records, or CVRs, would be accessible by public records requests.