PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Local leaders and legislators still are processing the outcome from November’s special election that ended the Republican supermajority — a supermajority that had been held for 13 years.

This change was made possible by a federal judge ruling in favor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which stated that the Mississippi Supreme Court’s electoral map at the time violated the Voting Rights Act.

That court ordered the state to go back to the drawing board.

For more information on supermajorities and how they work, check out this story:

Democrats break Republican supermajority in Mississippi senate

Dr. Joseph Weinberg, a political science professor at the University of Southern Mississippi said the election results were not necessar

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