民主党候选人斯科特·科洛姆在密西西比州参议院选举中，略微扩大了他对现任参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯的微弱领先优势，此前两个关键选票截止日期周二到来。
Democratic nominee Scott Colom added slightly to his narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi Senate election as two key ballot deadlines hit Tuesday. Colom, a local district attorney, as of 4:30 p.m.
据美联社报道，东部时间下午4点30分，地方检察官科洛姆以953,547票已计票中领先海德-史密斯2,607票，预计97%的选票已计入。这仅相差0.27个百分点。
ET, was ahead of Hyde-Smith by 2,607 votes, out of 953,547 votes counted, with an estimated 97% of the votes in, according to the Associated Press. That's a margin of just .27 percentage points.
在阿拉斯加州，民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉在参议院选举中以微弱优势领先共和党参议员丹·沙利文，这场选举可能取决于排序选择票。
In Alaska, Democratic nominee Mary Peltola holds a narrow lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Republican, in a Senate race that could come down to ranked-choice ballots.
民主党候选人斯科特·科洛姆，独立候选人泰·平金斯获得了20,034票。
Democratic nominee Scott Colom Independent candidate Ty Pinkins had 20,034 votes.
周二是处理宣誓书或临时选票的截止日期，这些选票由在选举日资格受到质疑或不明确的选民投出。这也是邮寄缺席选票的接收截止日期，这些选票的邮戳日期为选举日11月3日。密西西比州是仅有的两个参议院选举尚未定论的州之一。阿拉斯加州是另一个。
Tuesday is the deadline for resolving affidavit or provisional ballots, which are cast by voters whose eligibility is disputed or unclear on Election Day. It is also the deadline for the receipt of mail-in absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3. Mississippi is one of just two states whose Senate election has not been called. Alaska is the other.
迄今为止，民主党已翻转七个原本由共和党人持有的参议院席位。这使得民主党在1月份的100席参议院中至少拥有54个席位的新多数。
Democrats so far have flipped seven Senate seats held by Republicans going into the election. That gives Democrats a new majority in the Senate of at least 54 seats in the 100-member chamber come January.
选举日之前，阿拉斯加州被视为可能决定共和党人是否能保住参议院微弱多数的关键州。
Alaska before Election Day was viewed as possibly key to the question of whether Republicans would retain their narrow majority in the Senate.
密西西比州自1982年种族隔离主义者约翰·斯坦尼斯以来就没有选出过民主党参议员，鲜有政治分析人士将其列为民主党可能翻转的目标。如果科洛姆赢得选举，他将成为内战后重建时期以来密西西比州的第一位黑人参议员。
Mississippi, which has not elected a Democratic senator since the segregationist John Stennis in 1982, was on few political analysts' radar as a possible pickup for Democrats. If Colom wins his race, he would be the first Black senator from Mississippi since the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era.
在阿拉斯加州，民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉以2,517票的微弱优势领先现任共和党参议员丹·沙利文，总计票数为218,641票，相差1.1个百分点。
In Alaska, Democratic nominee Mary Peltola is ahead by just 2,517 votes over incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, with 218,641 total votes counted, a margin of 1.1 percentage points.
佩尔托拉获得了48.6%的总票数。如果她和萨利文都未能超过总票数的50%，则选举将进入排名选择轮次，在该轮次中，另外两名候选人杰拉德·海克斯和另一位名为丹·萨利文的候选人将被淘汰，首选他们的选民的第二选择将分配给佩尔托拉和现任者。
Peltola has 48.6% of the total vote. If neither she nor Sullivan gets more than 50% of the total vote, the race will go to a ranked-choice round, in which the two other candidates, Gerald Heikes and another candidate named Dan Sullivan, will be eliminated, and the second choices of voters who made them their first choice will be allocated between Peltola and the incumbent.