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The outcome of the US Senate elections in Mississippi, the Republican bastion, is still undecided. Kolom is currently slightly ahead of Hyde-Smith. After absentee votes and provisional votes have been counted, the result may not be determined until the 13th at the earliest.
It has been for many yearsrepublican party The iron-clad state of Mississippi has the largest number of U.S. Senate seats up for grabs this year.midterm elections The biggest suspense is that the result of the vote counting, which will take place a week after Election Day, is still uncertain. According to the latest data from the Associated Press as of the evening of the 10th, Republican US Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is seeking re-election, received 48.8% of the vote, while Democratic challenger Scott Collom was slightly ahead with 49.1% of the vote.Washington Post According to reports, Michigan state law does not provide for an automatic recount. Any camp that wants to challenge the voting results should wait for the election results to be declared before taking action.
Postmarked mail-in absentee ballots on Election Day, November 3, and “provisional ballots” (provisional ballots), a temporary mechanism for voters who have unresolved disputes over eligibility but are still allowed to vote, have a processing deadline of noon on the 10th. When the results of these two vote figures are released, election officials in 82 counties across the state will have to confirm the election results before leaving for work on the 13th.
Democratic aides said many of the ballots in question came from first-time or infrequent voters who faced problems in Michigan elections because of strict voter registration and ID requirements, but a large portion of these votes were cast for Colome.
Local media outlet Mississippi Today recently reported that voter information purchased from credit rating agency Experian by Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson contained address errors, resulting in some voters being removed from voter rolls.
After Election Day, Colome continued holding events and demonstrations across the state, while Smith kept a relatively low profile and rarely issued statements. He briefly told the media at the Capitol on the 10th that vote counting was still ongoing and thousands of votes had not yet been counted. “We are confident.”
CNN analyzed on the 11th that Colome overcame the skepticism of Democratic Party insiders and worked hard to turn Missouri from a red state into a decisive battle state.
Colome has the opportunity to become Mississippi’s first African-American U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era and the first Democratic U.S. senator since 1982.
As early as November last year, Democratic Georgia US Senator Raphael Warnock began saying that the Michigan seat was being ignored by the Democratic Party. When this argument was presented at a fundraising event in Washington in April this year, the audience laughed out loud.
Warnock supported Colom throughout the election process, providing advice through phone calls and text messages and helping to raise 750,000 yuan in election funds. In October, Warnock and New Jersey U.S. Senator Cory Booker both visited Michigan to campaign. In the final moments of the election, former President Clinton, who was born in the southern United States, arrived in Michigan to support Colom.
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In a rare tug-of-war in Mississippi, which has long leaned Republican, Democratic challenger Collom temporarily led with 49.1%, followed by incumbent Senator Hyde-Smith with 48.8%. The winner remained unclear for a week after the election.
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Still being processed are mail-in absentee ballots that were mailed on Election Day, as well as provisional ballots for voters whose eligibility was disputed but who were approved to vote. The final winner will be determined only after the statistics of both these types of votes are completed.
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If elected, Colome would become Mississippi’s first African-American U.S. senator since Reconstruction and the first Democratic U.S. senator since 1982, which has great symbolic significance.
