Who Counts in Mississippi?
Amy Jean Nobles argues in a Medium essay that thousands of sealed affidavit ballots could decide Mississippi's 2026 U.S. Senate race, where Scott Colom leads Cindy Hyde-Smith by 2,574 votes, and traces the fight over who counts to Mississippi's 1890 constitution and the long history of Black voter suppression. She profiles the state officials with a hand in the count — Michael Watson, Lynn Fitch, Mike Hurst and Tate Reeves — each with a record of election fights, and urges affidavit voters to confirm their ballots by the Nov. 10, 2026 deadline.
