Counting in the Mississippi Senate race is expected to take several days, or potentially weeks. Currently, Democratic candidate Scipio Colom holds a narrow lead over incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, but Mississippi law does not include the traditional recount mechanism used when election results are extremely close. The state is the only one in the United States that legally prohibits both automatic and requested recounts. A court order is the sole means by which a recount may be conducted, requiring the losing candidate to file a lawsuit challenging the outcome and providing evidence of errors or illegal votes.
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