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What are the recount rules in tight Mississippi Senate race?
BBC • • general
Key Points:
- The Mississippi Senate race is extremely close, with Democrat Scott Colom holding a narrow lead of about 2,500 votes over incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith as of 97% vote count.
- Approximately 3,600 absentee-by-mail ballots and an unknown number of provisional ballots remain to be counted, with deadlines for receipt and ID verification on 10 November.
- Both campaigns have deployed legal teams and observers, with Republicans requesting provisional ballots be segregated and preserved as potential evidence, a move Democrats argue lacks legal basis and may violate voter privacy.
- Mississippi lacks a formal recount procedure, leaving resolution of disputes to state judges and potentially the US Senate, which has constitutional authority to judge its members' elections.
- The final outcome could end nearly 40 years of Republican control of Mississippi's Senate seats and impact the Democrats' majority in the US Senate.
