Rusty Jacobs
Voting and Election Integrity ReporterRusty Jacobs is ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s Voting and Election Integrity Reporter. Rusty started his reporting career in the 1990s at a weekly newspaper in Connecticut. He has been with ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ 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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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. -
In addition to silencing the voices of legitimate voters, Griffin's effort to invalidate thousands of ballots in his race for a seat on the state Supreme Court could threaten public trust in the judiciary. -
Some 60,000 North Carolinians’ ballots are being challenged by the Republican candidate for a state Supreme Court Justice seat. Due South learns who those voters are, and how they feel about their ballots being challenged. -
Republican Jefferson Griffin wants to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots in his attempt to turn around his apparent electoral loss in a race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. -
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin, who trails in his race against Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by 734 votes, wants more than 60,000 ballots invalidated because of alleged incomplete voter registrations -
In his effort to turn around an apparent electoral loss in the race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court, Republican Jefferson Griffin is seeking to invalidate more than 60,000 ballots, a disproportionate number of them cast by young voters, 18 to 25. -
A Wake County Superior Court judge has ruled against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who is trying to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in the race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. But the trial court ruling notwithstanding, the judicial contest is far from over.
