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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North Carolina's elections director, Karen Brinson Bell, addressed a joint legislative oversight committee on the challenges the state faces this year as major election law changes, such as the photo ID requirement, take effect.
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A law enacted last year requires 10 counties to test software for verifying voters' signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.
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The high court will determine whether lawyers behind false claims of voter fraud can be sued for defamation.
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eCourts is meant to replace North Carolina's 1980s-era mainframe and computer-based paper court management system believed by many to be obsolete. However, attorneys and court personnel have complained that eCourts have slowed things down, plus the company that installed the new system is facing a class-action lawsuit over alleged wrongful detentions due to eCourts.
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Chief Justice John Roberts visited Durham to help bestow a posthumous award on former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
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WUNC visited the campuses of N.C. Central and Campbell to gauge the level of elections engagement among college students.
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North Carolina is one 15 states holding nominating contests on Tuesday for offices including president
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North Carolina voters like the early voting option, which at least two GOP candidates have talked about curtailing.
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A national grassroots group is launching a voter mobilization effort across the country, including in North Carolina.
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A 2018 photo ID law to vote in North Carolina will be in effect for this year's major election.