Mississippi is in play!

I just sent a hundred bucks to Scott Colom’s Senate campaign in Mississippi.

I remember all too well from January 2021 what a time-consuming and tedious job it can be to “cure” ballots in a close election like this one.

There are likely MANY provisional ballots scattered across Mississippi, but only a handful in any given precinct. Often the problem is something simple: a voter showed up without the required ID, or someone made a technical mistake on an absentee ballot.

In many cases, the problem is easy enough to fix. But somebody has to find that voter, explain the problem, and help them understand exactly what they need to do. Sometimes that means actually driving to somebody’s house, knocking on the door, and helping them through the process.

I know. I've done it.

In January 2021, I drove way out into the countryside to a lonely farmhouse in Polk County to help an elderly woman cure her ballot. She was in her eighties and had been voting for decades. She was astonished to learn there was a problem with her ballot. She'd never had any trouble voting before!

And she was SO grateful that somebody had taken the time and trouble to come all that way to make sure her vote would count.

On another trip I drove way up Lookout Mountain, almost to the Tennessee line, to help another voter with a single ballot.

Those are just two examples. Think about it. All those miles, all that time and effort, for ONE vote at a time.

Now multiply that by hundreds of precincts scattered across an entire state!

With so little time left, Colom needs a BIG team of people working to make sure every legitimate vote is counted.

If you can spare a few dollars, I hope you'll join me in making a donation to help with that effort. There are only a VERY few days left to cure these ballots, and every hour matters.

I wish I could just drop everything and drive to Mississippi to help!

I keep thinking about that sweet lady in Polk County. She had done what she'd been doing for decades. She had voted. She had every reason to believe her vote would count. And if nobody had come knocking on her door, she might never even have known there was a problem.

How many people like her are out there in Mississippi right now?

Those folks took the trouble to vote. They did their part as citizens. If their ballots are legitimate and the problems can be corrected, those votes deserve to be counted.

An election this close ought to be decided by the voters, not by a missing signature, a forgotten ID, or a technicality that could have been corrected if only someone had reached out in time.

Let's help make sure the voters of Mississippi have the final word.