Mississippi Senate race votes at risk after state eliminates mail ballot curing rule
Democracy Docket reports that Mississippi's secretary of state quietly deleted the state's mail ballot curing rule in mid-August 2026, leaving mail voters unable to fix signature problems, as the deadlocked Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith comes down to the final few provisional and mail ballots. The rule had been adopted in October 2020 after voting rights groups sued, and civil rights groups say voters are now broadly confused about curing.
