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[Ross Adams @radamsWAPT]

BREAKING Voting in Hinds extended till 8 PM. Chancery judge just signed emergency order, according to supervisor Robert Graham.

[WJTV 12 News @WJTV]

#BREAKINGNEWS: A Hinds County judge has issued an emergency order to allow polling precincts in the county to remain open until 8:00 p.m. https://t.co/TY45VksHL3

[Taylor Vance @taylorcvance]

Breaking MS election news: The Mississippi Democratic Party is planning to file a lawsuit asking a Hinds County judge to keep all Hinds County polling precincts open until 9 p.m.

More details to come soon.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

MS Dems say they expect gains in DeSoto, Hinds, Rankin and Harrison counties compared to the 2019 general election Reeves won by 5% or 45,000 votes.

MS GOP say they'll do better than Dems expect in Northeast Mississippi and the southwest.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Election eve:

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves & GOP ticket held unity GOTV rally at HQ in Jackson.

Then, he had a public conference call w/ former President Trump.

Dem. nominee Brandon Presley rallied in Nettleton, his Northeast Mississippi hometown.

https://t.co/XGqAnpBZ2N

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Presley appeared with Dem. state chair Rep. Cheikh Taylor Monday morning, said race isn't about national issues: "we can fix problems in the state of Mississippi with a governor that puts their attention on those problems rather than playing national party politics.”

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

In the 10 GOP counties with the biggest jumps in absentee ballot requests, the avg increase was 50% and Reeves’ avg victory margin in 2019 was ~2,600 votes.

In the 10 Dem counties with biggest absentee jumps, avg increase was 49% and Hood’s avg victory margin in 2019 was ~6,000.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Mississippi absentee ballot requests are up 6.8%. Suggests voter interest & turnout may be higher than 2019. Absentee requests increased in over 59% of the counties Democrats won in the last gubernatorial election but only 42% of those won by Republicans.

https://t.co/t8NjX8brxP

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Presley said tonight he’s pleased with the absentee numbers, and the geography of the upticks benefits Democrats, but he doesn’t read too much into it. He said he’ll work 24 hours a day until polls close Tuesday night “no matter what indicators we may get”

[Taylor Vance @taylorcvance]

Julia has done incredible work building a campaign donation database on Mississippi's two candidates for governor and breaking down what the data reveals.

Here's the raw data for voters to examine for themselves.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

A 13-year-old girl in Clarksdale, MS gave birth this year after being raped as a 12-year-old.

Asked about it, Fitch said responsibility lies with the physician and law enforcement and suggested there had been a failure to bring information to the attention of the right person.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

MS advocates say abortion ban exceptions aren't available in practice.

Fitch: "Absolutely they’re in place. There’s definitely a pathway for those individuals like that, that have been harmed and choose to go that route because it has been an endangerment to the mother or rape."

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

MS advocates say abortion ban exceptions aren't available in practice.

Fitch: "Absolutely they’re in place. There’s definitely a pathway for those individuals like that, that have been harmed and choose to go that route because it has been an endangerment to the mother or rape."

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Fitch's office says MS won't criminalize pregnant women. But arguments like Alabama's aren't focused on pregnant women. They're about prosecuting doctors and people who help arrange out-of-state travel to get an abortion.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Fitch's office says MS won't criminalize pregnant women. But arguments like Alabama's aren't focused on pregnant women. They're about prosecuting doctors and people who help arrange out-of-state travel to get an abortion.

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, who appealed the MS abortion ban case to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, wrote a letter joined by Marshall & 17 other GOP AGs opposing a federal rule to block out-of-state medical records, including abortion, from prosecutors.
https://t.co/gE3TfKUef7

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, who appealed the MS abortion ban case to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe, wrote a letter joined by Marshall & 17 other GOP AGs opposing a federal rule to block out-of-state medical records, including abortion, from prosecutors.
https://t.co/gE3TfKUef7

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Next door in Alabama, AG Steve Marshall filed federal court arguments last month that a state abortion ban and conspiracy law make it illegal to “help pregnant Alabamians travel to obtain lawful, out-of-state abortions.”

https://t.co/bHhEQSEYxy

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Next door in Alabama, AG Steve Marshall filed federal court arguments last month that a state abortion ban and conspiracy law make it illegal to “help pregnant Alabamians travel to obtain lawful, out-of-state abortions.”

https://t.co/bHhEQSEYxy

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Can Mississippi prosecute out-of-state abortions?

Gov. Tate Reeves won't say—he's avoided the question for months including multiple times this week.

Dem. nominee Brandon Presley, also pro-life, says no.

https://t.co/LlM3LJqrMP

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

Can Mississippi prosecute out-of-state abortions?

Gov. Tate Reeves won't say—he's avoided the question for months including multiple times this week.

Dem. nominee Brandon Presley, also pro-life, says no.

https://t.co/LlM3LJqrMP

[Gideon Hess @gideonhess1]

TN Rep. Justin Pearson and MS Dems held events in DeSoto County and at Rust College this week.

Dems will compete in NW Mississippi's Memphis suburbs in the Nov. 7 election & plan a redistricting lawsuit for another Black Congressional district.

https://t.co/8hN3UhATmx