Mississippi is still counting.

WASHINGTON — The Associated Press, updated at 5:06 p.m. EST on Friday, said nearly 2,500 votes separated Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, and that votes were still being counted. On Friday morning the AP’s estimate of outstanding votes was about 44,000. By 4:45 p.m. ET, after newer reports from the counties, the estimate was closer to 30,000. The AP said that figure could still change. This desk does not print a newer margin. It does not have one from the AP on Sunday morning.

Absentee ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and received by Nov. 10, five business days after the election, the AP reported. Counties report provisional ballots with their certified results on Nov. 13, ten days after the election. The race was still too early to call on Friday. The photograph the AP ran with that story is the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 5, J. Scott Applewhite. It is not Mississippi. This paper does not use it.

Nearly 2,500 votes separate Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

The photograph here is Scott Colom, smiling, talking to two people, a camera behind him. It is a campaign photograph, as National Review published it on Oct. 20, 2026. It is not Friday. Hyde-Smith is not in the frame. Alaska is not in this note. The AP story used here did not put Alaska in the count.