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Dozens of people queue in front of the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson on Saturday, November 24, 2018, waiting for the postal vote in a second round between Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Democrat Mike Espy. Saturday was the deadline for people wishing to vote by mail at the offices of constituency clerks, and it is unusual to see lines on the day of the deadline for absences. The second round will take place on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 and the winner will serve the last two years of a six-year term begun by longtime Senator Thad Cochran. The Mississippi Republican governor appointed Hyde-Smith to serve temporarily when Cochran retired for health reasons. (AP Photo / Emily Wagster Pettus) The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Latest news on US Senate elections in Mississippi (local time):
A black Democrat candidate for the US Senate in Mississippi said he would bring an experience of "diversity" and "inclusion" to work, and he thinks that the Republican he is trying to overthrow has a different track record.
Democrat Mike Espy on Saturday explained how his twin sister and him were among the 17 black students who joined Yazoo City High School in 1969 and graduated in 1971.
An independent newspaper, the Jackson Free Press, reported Friday night that Senegalese Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith had attended a white private school founded in 1970, the year of the integration of several Mississippi public high schools. She graduated from Lawrence County Academy in 1977.
Hyde-Smith campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan responded to the report on attendance at the Hyde-Smith High School, saying that "the Liberal waste media have given up their senses."
More than 43,000 postal ballots were requested before the second round election in Mississippi, which will include a fierce race in the US Senate.
The state secretary's office said Saturday that the number could increase as constituency registrars continue to compile information. The total includes postal postal ballots and postal ballots deposited at the offices of constituency clerks. Saturday was the deadline for postal voting in person, and people were lining up in some courthouses, including Hinds County.
People aged 65 and over have the right to vote by mail, as well as people who will be away from their home country on polling day.
Approximately 69,000 postal ballots were requested prior to the November 6 election in Mississippi. There is usually a sharp decrease in the number of votes cast between the first election and the second round.
Several dozen voters from Mississippi's largest county are waiting in a queue outside the courthouse to vote by mail during a second round in the US Senate.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, White Republican Senator, is the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress and Democrat challenger Mike Espy, a former US agriculture commissioner who seeks to become the first African-American Senator in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
The runoff is Tuesday. Saturday was the deadline for people to vote by mail at the offices of constituency clerks.
People aged 65 and over have the right to vote by mail, as well as people who will be away from their home country on polling day.
Cox Littleton, a 92-year-old female voter from Jackson, Ill., Said she had voted for Espy because she considered him "an extremely intelligent man".
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