Mississippi Senate race heads toward ballot fight
Democracy Docket live-tracks the too-close-to-call Mississippi U.S. Senate race, where Democrat Scott Colom's 1,822-vote lead over Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has Republicans demanding election officials segregate and preserve provisional ballots, a step Colom's counsel calls legally baseless. The NAACP and voting-rights organizers are helping voters cure affidavit ballots by the Nov. 10 deadline, while GOP chairman Mike Hurst estimates some 20,000 outstanding ballots and Hyde-Smith declares she will win reelection.
