Rusty Jacobs
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Rusty Jacobs is a politics reporter for WUNC. Rusty previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007 and now returns after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at Carolina and then worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.
As a reporter, he has covered a wide array of topics including military affairs, sports, government and damaging storms.
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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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Voters in North Carolina are being courted by both Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns. In Granville county, a competitive area, voters have a variety of views and some remain undecided.
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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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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. -
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. -
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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On Friday, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued three rulings — spanning voter ID, redistricting, and voting access for people with felony convictions — that will have a deep impact on how the state conducts elections. -
Republicans and Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly are pushing competing voting legislation. -
Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly think they can override a gubernatorial veto with a measure that would eliminate the state's permit requirement for purchasing a handgun. -
The long session of the North Carolina General Assembly has begun in earnest.
