Mississippi Senate: Colom, Hyde-Smith gird for ballot legal fight in razor-thin race
CNBC · Dan Mangan ·
The Mississippi Senate election could be determined by the mail-in ballots received after Election Day, whose legality was upheld by the Supreme Court.
An ultra-tight Mississippi Senate race between Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Scott Colom could end with one of the biggest shocks in a midterm election cycle already chock full of stunning defeats of GOP candidates.
With Colom in the lead by just 1,813 votes on Thursday, Hyde-Smith's campaign set the stage for a potential legal battle over ballots by demanding in a letter to county commissioners and circuit clerks in all 82 Mississippi counties that they immediately separate all provisional ballots cast in the election from regular and absentee ballots.
"These measures are necessary to ensure that each affidavit ballot's eligibility for counting and