No one knows how many ballots are outstanding in Mississippi's Senate race
NPR's explainer reports that no one can say how many ballots remain to be counted in Mississippi's U.S. Senate race, where fewer than 2,000 votes separate Cindy Hyde-Smith and Scott Colom and absentee ballots can arrive until 10 November. Officials' ballot estimates diverge, and experts fault the state's decentralized process and its provisional voting rules.
