The Republican Party is demanding that Mississippi election officials “separate and preserve” all provisional ballots cast in the midterms — the first step in a likely bid to throw out votes in the state’s extremely close U.S. Senate race*.

The vote count is ongoing, and Democrat Scott Colom currently leads Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) by several hundred votes, with certification due by Nov. 13. His victory would represent a significant upset in the state’s Republican-dominated politics.

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[–] 16 points 6 days ago (6 children)

The comical thing is that 49 states have written laws pertaining to automatically doing a recount if the numbers are this close. Kind of like Florida did in 2000. Mississippi is that 1 of 50 states that does not have one.

So without proven fraud, I can't see why a judge would give a warrant to recount them

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    My co-worker claimed that Mississippi has no legal path to even authorize a recount. Do you know if that's true? Sometimes her facts are... Off.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (3 children)

    Does seeing multiple people on Lemmy say it count as evidence?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

    I was hoping to outsource searching for links to corroborate/ disagree to Lemmy users... I guess it's a big assumption that they would cite their sources.

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