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Mississippi voters report problems amid heavy midterm turnout
(mississippitoday.org)
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Of all times for this to even happen... I check, and it's literally still within 10 to 100 votes different between a Dem getting elected senator there.
I hope this gets all the investigations needed. Mississippi Blue fucking turned out and if they won, they deserve to be up there with the likes of Kansas, South Carolina and Texas.
I don't know specifically about Mississippi, and the specific voting precincts where this happened will matter, but in general, problems voting on Election Day probably favored Democrats.
Democratic voters had a lot more willingness to vote early in this election, and so a lot voted by mail nationwide; the expectation was that in-person voting on Election Day would have Republican candidates tend to catch up on vote count.
I remember some of the election coverage was talking about it, because it rained in some places on Election Day. Rain tends to depress turnout, and that rain probably favored Democratic candidates.
True enough. There was a spoiler worth about 2% which is a bigger deal. In any case, I learned they don't even really have a recount procedure so it'll be interesting to see what happens.