Mississippi has an unexpectedly close Senate race but no recount procedure
The Hill · Sophie Brams, Zach Schonfeld ·
The Mississippi Senate race could be headed for the courts, as two candidates are locked in a tight contest with no recount procedure on the books. The election between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom remained too close to call as of Wednesday evening, with Colom leading by less than a quarter of…
The Mississippi Senate race could be headed for the courts, as two candidates are locked in a tight contest with no recount procedure on the books.
The election between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom remained too close to call as of Wednesday evening, with Colom leading by less than a quarter of a percentage point. That’s fewer than 2,000 votes.
And ballots are still coming in. The state allows mail ballots to be counted so long as they were postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days later, a law that was upheld by the Supreme Court this summer. Mississippi is still waiting to see if roughly 3,600 outstanding ballots show up in time, according to the state’s top election official.
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