Mississippi Senate Race Nears the End of Counting: Colom Leads Hyde-Smith by About 2,550 Votes With About 97 Percent Counted, and the Associated Press Has Not Called the Race
Mississippi's US Senate race remained undecided a week after Election Day. As of November 10, Democrat Scott Colom led Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by about 2,550 votes, 49.1 percent to 48.8 percent, with about 97 percent of the vote counted, and the Associated Press had not called the race.
November 10 was the last day for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive, and the 5 p.m. deadline for voters who cast affidavit, or provisional, ballots to show identification. Thousands of affidavit ballots were still to be counted.
Hyde-Smith said she felt confident and told counties to keep counting. Mississippi is the only state with no formal recount process; a candidate who doubts the results would have to sue for one.
The outcome will set the final size of the parties' Senate margin. Control of both chambers has already been decided, and the Mississippi and Alaska Senate races are the two Senate contests still outstanding.
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Photo: 图：位于杰克逊的密西西比州议会大厦。Michael Barera 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons / Photo: Jackson December 2018 02 (Mississippi State Capitol) (cropped). By Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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