Special election runoffs are happening in some parts of Mississippi with voters in over a dozen counties asked to head to the polls on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

After a majority of 17 legislative seats on ballots this year were decided on Nov. 4, two state Senate seats remained without a clear-cut winner. In Senate District 24 – which encompasses parts of Leflore, Panola, and Tallahatchie counties – Curressia Brown and Justin Pope vie for the seat left vacant by the retiring David Jordan. In Senate District 26 – which includes parts of Hinds and Madison counties – Letitia Johnson and Kamesha Mumford square off to become the successor to now-Jackson Mayor John Horhn.

Plenty of hyperlocal elections are happening, too. Those include coroner, election commissioner, circuit clerk, school board, superv

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