Senate GOP’s campaign arm demands Mississippi election officials preserve affidavit ballots
- The National Republican Senatorial Committee asked election officials in all 82 Mississippi counties to preserve and document affidavit, or provisional, ballots while the Senate race remained undecided.
- Democrat Scott Colom led Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by fewer than 2,000 votes after 96% of ballots were counted, according to the Associated Press.
- Up to 3,600 outstanding ballots could arrive within five days if postmarked by Election Day, while counties had 10 days to certify the results.
- Colom’s attorneys called the Republican request unlawful, while Hyde-Smith’s campaign said the remaining votes would support her reelection.
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National Republican Senatorial Committee asks Mississippi to preserve affidavit ballots
Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is seeking another term in the upper chamber but trailed Democrat Scott Colom at the time of the publishing, with 96% of the vote counted.
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