AI Image
Mississippi election count continues with 2,800 ballots out
WAPT • • nation
Key Points:
- Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson reports that 75 out of 82 counties have uploaded unofficial election results.
- Approximately 2,800 absentee mail-in ballots remain outstanding, while 12,767 affidavit ballots have been processed, with about 77% accepted.
- In the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by 2,574 votes, with Colom at 467,930 votes and Hyde-Smith at 465,356.
- Around 97% of the votes have been counted in the Senate race, according to the Associated Press.
