Black Democrats won big in the Mississippi Legislature for the state's special election, flipping multiple seats to end the GOP supermajority.

DeSoto County voters returned to the polls Nov. 4 to cast their ballots in the Mississippi Senate special elections. Senate districts on the ballot in North Mississippi were 1, 2, 11 and 19. The special elections were the result of court-ordered ...

Mississippi Democratic Party chairman Cheikh Taylor praised the Voting Rights Act for making Tuesday’s results possible while MSGOP chairman Mike Hurst said Republicans were underdogs in the new gerrymandered districts.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case to determine whether a Mississippi state election law permitting ballots received after election day to be counted

The U.S. Supreme Court will review a case challenging Mississippi's law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after Election Day. The Republican National Committee argues that only Congress, not states, can set rules for federal elections, such as ballot deadlines.