Senate GOP’s campaign arm demands Mississippi election officials preserve affidavit ballots
Republican lawyers say the ballots must be kept separate and secure as officials review thousands of outstanding votes in a race decided by 1,724 votes.
- Democrat Scott Colom holds a razor-thin lead of roughly 49.0% to Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's 48.8%, with up to 20,000 affidavit ballots awaiting eligibility review, according to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson.
- Affidavit ballots are cast when voters lack photo ID or are missing from poll books, requiring additional verification before counting. The NAACP and voting rights groups are monitoring the vetting process across all 82 counties.
- In Hinds County, election officials are managing over 600 affidavits, including 233 from Jackson State University students. Lily Moens, policy director at Mississippi Votes, said ballots are being rejected because voters arrived at the wrong precinct, calling it 'disheartening.'
- Hyde-Smith's lawyers requested that officials segregate affidavit ballots, prompting Colom's legal team to call the request 'unlawful' and warn against steps that could allow 'particular ballot to be traced to a particular voter,' violating ballot secrecy.
- Counties must certify results by Nov. 13, with the election potentially making Colom the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction-era Republican Blanche Bruce left office in 1881. The race will determine the size of the Senate majority next year.
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Mississippi vote count drags in US Senate cliffhanger
Democrat Scott Colom held a narrow lead of fewer than 2,000 votes over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, with roughly 96% of ballots counted. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: Election officials in Mississippi were racing Friday to verify thousands of outstanding ballots in a razor-thin US Senate race, three days after Democrats swept to power in a historic defeat for President Donald Trump's Republicans.Democrat Scott Colom held a narrow lead of fewer …
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lrytas.ltMississippi election officials rushed to verify thousands of uncounted ballots Friday in a tight race for a seat in the U.S. Senate, three days after Democrats scored a historic victory over President Donald Trump's Republicans.
(Los Angeles=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Kyung-yoon = As the U.S. Mississippi Senate election spirals into a neck-and-neck race with no guarantee of a result even on the fourth day of vote counting...
The mid-term elections were held on Tuesday in the United States, but the final results of a major election for a Mississippi senator's seat are still waiting for Friday morning, mainly due to the number of mail-order ballots remaining to be counted.
Eyes are placed on provisional ballots, which are used when a person has problems with their voter identification or registration
Scott Colom’s lead grows again in Mississippi’s US Senate race. Here are 3 things to know.
Mississippi’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom kept inching ahead of Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith on Thursday as election officials across the state continued to count affidavit ballots that will decide the tight race.
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