Hinds County Resolution Board finished scanning absentee ballots just before 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning, accepting all of the final 67 they scanned this morning.

Scott Colom won 5,999 of the county’s in-person absentee votes, with Cindy Hyde Smith earning 1,386 and Ty Pinkins earning 99, county documents show.

Colom won an additional 61 absentee votes this morning as absentee ballot scanning came to its completion in Hinds County; Hyde Smith and Pinkins both earned an additional three absentee votes each.

Affidavit ballot scanning began just after 11 a.m.

Capital Bureau Reporter Grace E. Marion is covering the capital city, Jackson, as well as surrounding rural, urban and suburban areas in Hinds County, Madison County and Rankin County. She is a reporter and photojournalist with a passion for narrative writing and investigative reporting. Her work as a journalist has earned her coverage in publications like the Columbia Journalism Review, the Hechinger Report, and the Student Press Law Center. Grace is a member of the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

Grace graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Journalism and New Media in 2022 with a degree in print and broadcast journalism, and from the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2024.