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NAACP leaders in Jackson call for the Senate count to finish free of interference
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With the Senate race still uncalled, civil rights leaders in Jackson are asking the country to keep watching Mississippi until the count is finished and certified.
NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Mississippi NAACP Executive Director Charles Taylor, standing with pastors and faith leaders on Sunday, said county election workers should be able to complete their work free of intimidation, harassment or interference. Volunteers with the organization are watching the process in all 82 counties and plan to stay until certification.
On Friday the group wrote to every county election commission, asking officials to stick to state law, keep the counting and canvassing open for the public to watch, and publish each county's affidavit and absentee totals. The organization says its Mississippi work this year included 11 voter registration sites, more than 17,000 voters registered and 150,000 doors knocked.
If you voted by affidavit ballot, check on it: call or visit your county circuit clerk and ask whether it arrived, whether it has been counted, and whether anything else is needed from you. If you used that ballot because you lacked an acceptable photo ID, that ID is due at the clerk's office by close of business Tuesday, November 10, which is also the last day for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive. Counties must certify their results by Friday, November 13. Keep your affidavit receipt, and anyone told a ballot will not count, or unable to get an answer, can call 1-888-601-VOTE.
(Let's count every legal vote) — Charles Taylor, Mississippi NAACP
Source: Mississippi NAACP
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