Rusty Jacobs
Voting and Election Integrity ReporterRusty Jacobs is 深夜福利's Voting and Election Integrity Reporter. Rusty started his reporting career in the 1990s at a weekly newspaper in Connecticut. He has been with 深夜福利 since 2001鈥攖aking 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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A resolution in the state Supreme Court race, six months after Election Day. New oversight at the NC State Board of Elections, with Republicans now in control. And US Senator Thom Tillis breaks again with the president. -
Six months after the election, a federal judge has ordered that a contest for the North Carolina should finally be over, in a case that targeted thousands of votes on technical grounds.
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The Trump Administration's slashing of USAID funds have cut deeply into RTP-based nonprofits dedicated to preventing infectious disease outbreaks. -
The latest in the ongoing saga over NC鈥檚 Supreme Court seat. What Republican Jefferson Griffin鈥檚 win (for now) with the state appeals court means, and what happens next. 深夜福利鈥檚 Rusty Jacobs fills us in. -
Thousands gathered Saturday on Raleigh Bicentennial Plaza across from the North Carolina General Assembly to protest the Trump Administration and presidential adviser Elon Musk. -
A majority of a three-judge appeals court panel has given thousands of voters whose ballots are being challenged 15 days to verify their eligibility
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Attorneys for Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin appeared before a North Carolina Court of Appeals panel on Friday arguing to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in Griffin's race against Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs. -
A Democratic lawmaker wants judicial elections in North Carolina determined by nonpartisan contests. -
An appeals court judge who could hear Jefferson Griffin's protest over thousands of ballots in his bid for a seat on the state Supreme Court contributed to the GOP candidate's legal expense fund. -
Former local elections directors from across the state and ex-military officials and service members' spouses have filed briefs against Jefferson Griffin in his legal battle to turn around his electoral loss in a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
