民主党人斯科特·科洛姆尚未赢得密西西比州的美国参议员选举，但这位地方检察官周五在法里什街商业区漫步时，受到了历史性人物般的欢迎，民权领袖曾在此组织活动。
Democrat Scott Colom hasn't won Mississippi's U.S. Senate race, but the local prosecutor was welcomed as a historic figure Friday as he strolled through the Farish Street business district where civil rights leaders once organized.
“这太棒了！拥有斯科特·科洛姆作为我们的代表太棒了，”杰克逊市马歇尔音乐书店店主马蒂·乔恩·普里姆说。
"It's so wonderful! It's so wonderful to have Scott Colom as our representative," said Maati Jone Primm, who owns Marshall's Music & Bookstore in Jackson.
该州仍在统计选票，这可能使科洛姆成为内战后重建时期以来，这个深南部州份首位黑人参议员。科洛姆击败共和党参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯的可能性，让许多黑人选民处于谨慎乐观与公开庆祝之间——该州近40%的人口是黑人，但几代人以来的最高层代表一直是白人。
The state is still tallying ballots that could make Colom the first Black senator from this Deep South state since post-Civil War Reconstruction. The possibility of Colom defeating Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith puts many Black voters somewhere between cautious optimism and outright celebration in a state where nearly 40% of the population is Black but the top representation for generations has been white.
“我很高兴我们走到了这一步，”76岁的律师索里·塔拉瓦利说，他早就认识科洛姆的父亲。他称这位43岁的候选人为“这个人，我们的弥赛亚，我们的救世主”。美联社尚未宣布选举结果，科洛姆的历史性竞选将取决于密西西比州82个县选举办公室正在进行的一项繁琐过程。地方官员正在接收和审查缺席选票和临时选票（称为宣誓选票），截止日期在下周。志愿者和代表各竞选团队的律师在旁注视，预期可能出现诉讼。
"I'm so glad we are at the point where we are," said Sorie Tarawally, a 76-year-old attorney who has long known Colom's father. He called the 43-year-old candidate "the man, our messiah, our savior." The contest remains too early for The Associated Press to call, and Colom's historic bid will hinge on a tedious process playing out in election offices across Mississippi's 82 counties. Local officials are receiving and examining absentee and provisional ballots, called affidavit ballots, before next week's deadlines. Volunteers and lawyers representing each campaign look on in anticipation of potential litigation.
“我们将确保一切依法进行，我对这些地方官员有信心，”科洛姆说。“他们在履行职责。必须对他们保持耐心。”科洛姆表示，自周二大选以来统计的选票对他有利，他指责海德-史密斯没有解释她的后续策略。
"We're going to make sure everything is followed according to the law, and I have confidence in those local officials," Colom said. "They're doing their jobs. Got to be patient with them." Colom said ballots tallied since Tuesday's election lean in his favor, and he chided Hyde-Smith for not explaining her strategy going forward.
“她仍然是我们的参议员。她在哪里？为什么她不接受任何采访？”科洛姆问道。“为什么她不能解释她的成功之路是什么？”海德-史密斯自选举之夜以来就没有公开露面，当时她在选票尚未全部计完、胜负差距极小的情况下基本宣告了胜利。
"She's still our senator. Where is she? Why is she not doing any interviews?" Colom asked. "Why can't she explain what her pathway to success is?" Hyde-Smith has not appeared publicly since election night, when she essentially declared victory despite a razor-thin margin with ballots still uncounted.
“我们不会退缩，”她周五在社交媒体上发帖说。“这次选举还没有结束。我们的团队正在密西西比州各地监督剩余选票，保护进程的公正性。我们会坚持到底！”马里兰州参议员安吉拉·阿尔索布鲁克斯，今年第一位与科洛姆一起竞选的民主党参议员，在一次采访中表示，她此行得知选民“会被像斯科特这样的候选人所鼓舞”。
"We are not backing down," she posted on social media Friday. "This election is not over. Our team is working across Mississippi to monitor the remaining ballots and protect the integrity of the process. We will see this through to the very end!" Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, the first Democratic senator to campaign with Colom this year, said in an interview that she came away from her trip knowing that voters "would be really energized by a candidate like Scott."
但阿尔索布鲁克斯，她是该州首位黑人参议员，补充说，“我去密西西比州后的感受是，存在一个‘信念问题’，多年来的失败让人如此。”“他们现在知道自己的投票很重要，”她说。
But Alsobrooks, who is her state's first Black senator, added that "the takeaway I had when I visited Mississippi was that there was a belief problem" after years of defeats. "They now know that their vote matters," she said.
未计票数量尚不清楚 未计票包括缺席选票，密西西比州可以计算在周二（即选举后第五个工作日）之前收到的缺席选票。其余的是宣誓选票，是在投票站出现故障时投出的：也许该人的名字不在选民名单上，或者该人没有适当的身份证件，或者投票站工作人员认定该人的身份证件与名单上的名字不完全匹配。
Number of outstanding ballots is not known The pool of outstanding ballots includes absentee ballots, which Mississippi can count as long as they are received by Tuesday, five business days after the election. The rest are affidavit ballots, which are cast at the polls when there's a glitch: Perhaps the person's name was not on the rolls or the person did not have proper identification, or a poll worker determined the person's identification did not precisely match the name on the list.
有身份证件问题的公民有直到周二的时间，在当地选举办公室亲自解决。对于不在投票站选民名单上的人，当地官员可以使用之前的记录以及该人填写选票时提交的宣誓书中的信息来核实其身份。该人通常无需亲自前往当地选举办公室；选票状态可以在密西西比州州务卿办公室的网站上查询。各县须在周五前向州务卿认证最终结果。
Citizens with identification issues have until Tuesday to address them in person at their local elections office. For people who were not on a precinct's rolls, local officials can verify a person's status using previous records and information on the affidavit that person filed when filling out a ballot. That person typically has no responsibility to come to a local elections office; ballot status can be found on the Mississippi secretary of state's office website. Counties have until Friday to certify complete results to the secretary of state.
密西西比州法律没有全州重新计票的规定。竞选团队可以寻求法院命令，通常逐县进行，要求检查选票。
Mississippi law has no provision for a statewide recount. Campaigns could seek court orders, usually county by county, seeking to examine ballots.
震动效应将出现在密西西比州，而不是华盛顿。民主党已控制参议院，因此密西西比州的结果不会改变华盛顿的权力平衡。
Seismic effect would be in Mississippi, not DC Democrats already control the Senate, so the result in Mississippi would not change the balance of power in Washington.
但这将标志着该州的重大转变。近150年来，白人保守派一直主导着州议会和国会代表团。在吉姆·克劳种族隔离时期和民权时代，这些领导人几乎都是民主党人。民权运动之后，他们绝大多数转向共和党。对密西西比州的黑人来说，结果是一样的：在州政府高层和华盛顿缺乏比例代表。
But it would mark a seismic shift in the state, where white conservatives have dominated the Statehouse and congressional delegation for nearly 150 years. Through Jim Crow segregation and the Civil Rights era, those leaders were nearly all Democrats. After the Civil Rights Movement, they overwhelmingly shifted to the Republican Party. For Black Mississippians, the result was the same: a lack of proportional representation at the top levels of state government and in Washington.
科洛姆最初被视为胜算不大，直到10月下旬，参议院民主党的顶级竞选组织才开始投放广告支持他。但中期选举显示出，南方旨在提升共和党势力、进而减少黑人代表性的重划选区努力遭到广泛反对。
Colom was initially viewed as a long shot, and it wasn't until late October that Senate Democrats' top campaign group started spending on advertising to support him. But the midterms revealed a broad backlash against redistricting efforts in the South that were aimed at boosting Republicans and, by extension, reducing Black representation.
普里姆的书店是科洛姆周五参观的地方，这家书店于20世纪30年代开业，被认为是美国历史最悠久的黑人所有的书店。
Primm's bookstore, where Colom visited on Friday, opened in the 1930s and is recognized as the oldest Black-owned bookstore in the U.S.
她说，Farish Street 街区仍然代表着密西西比州黑人“第一次迁徙，从种植园到城市”。Colom 作为潜在参议员出现在那里，“让我们感到非常自豪，也给了我们一个可以追求的榜样。我们的年轻人需要看到他们人生的可能性，当我们看到来自密西西比州的下一位参议员时，我们就看到了这些可能性。”竞选期间，Colom 强调他能代表所有密西西比州人，并表示特朗普总统的政策——尤其是与伊朗的战争和关税——影响所有人口群体。
She said the Farish Street neighborhood still represents Black Mississippians' "first migration, from the plantation to the city." Having Colom there as a potential senator "makes us so proud, and it gives us someone to aspire to. Our youth need to see the possibilities for their lives, and we do when we see our next senator from Mississippi." As he campaigned, Colom emphasized that he can represent all Mississippians, and he said President Donald Trump's policies — the war with Iran and tariffs, especially — cut across all demographic lines.
他甚至将延长的选票计票过程视为对该州295万居民的好处。“我很高兴全国媒体能看到我们州的美景，”他说。
He even celebrated the extended ballot counting process as a benefit to the state's 2.95 million residents. "I'm so glad the national press is getting to see the beauty of our state," he said.
但 Colom 和他的黑人支持者也从未忽视他作为黑人参选的意义。
But Colom and his Black supporters also have never ignored the significance of his candidacy as a Black man.
“我们受到社会中严重不平等以及似乎只有一方获益的现象所激励，”Tarawally 说，她出生于塞拉利昂，来到美国南部深处就读密西西比大学法学院。“所以，我们想要一个为我们利益发声的人。”Colom 以一则在民权领袖梅德加·埃弗斯（Medgar Evers）杰克逊家中拍摄的广告结束竞选。埃弗斯于1963年在自家车道上遭枪杀，死在妻子和孩子面前。
"We are motivated by the gross inequalities we have seen in society and how only one side seems to benefit," said Tarawally, who was born in Sierra Leone and arrived in the Deep South to attend law school at the University of Mississippi. "So, we want a person who speaks to our benefit." Colom ended his campaign with an ad set at the Jackson home of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was gunned down in 1963 in his own driveway, dying in front of his wife and children.
“这是一个关于争取投票权所付出牺牲的有力提醒，没有人比梅德加·埃弗斯及其家人付出得更多，”Colom 周五说。
"It's a powerful reminder of the sacrifice to gain the ballot, and nobody sacrificed more than Medgar Evers and his family," Colom said Friday.
“我对那则广告重要的是，我们没有请人们投票给我。我们只是谈论牺牲，谈论故事，”他继续说。“我们希望它作为最后一则广告，因为我希望它成为密西西比州民众听到的最后一条信息。”
"What was important to me about that ad is we didn't ask people to vote for me. We just talked about the sacrifice, talked about the story," he continued. "We just wanted that to be the closing ad because I wanted that to be the last message that the people of Mississippi heard."