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Reeves garnered 418,233 votes (50.9%), Democrat Brandon Presley received 391,614 (47.7%) and independent Gwendolyn Gray received 11,153 votes (1.4%), according to final county-by-county voting totals posted this week by the secretary of state’s office.

A Wise County grand jury has indicted 39 people on various charges including assault on corrections officers, fraud and strangulation.

Voter turnout was down nearly 10 percent in last Tuesday’s general election compared to the 2019 cycle, complete but unofficial election results show. 

Mississippi residents who are planning to submit an absentee ballot for upcoming runoffs will be able to cast their votes in person over the next two Saturdays. Circuit clerk offices will be open on November 18 and November 25 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. If you plan on voting...

Democrat candidate De’Keither Stamps has been elected to the position of public service commissioner for Mississippi’s central district over incumbent Republican Brent Bailey. The outgoing state representative secured approximately 2,000 more votes than his opponent, according to the 97 percent of ballots that had been counted when the election was...

 

The big news out of Tuesday’s elections was wins for Democrats and for reproductive rights in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

The big news out of Tuesday’s elections was wins for Democrats and for reproductive rights in Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania.

One precinct in Clinton had 100 people in line but only 14 ballots available at 6:45 p.m., while another ran out of ballots three times but only received 100 more each time, according to the court filing by Mississippi Votes.

People in Mississippi's largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on election day.