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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A dispute over when to hold an election to determine Republican Sen. Trent Lott's successor headed to court Wednesday.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, filed a Circuit Court complaint challenging the Nov. 4 date set by Republican Gov. Haley Barbour as unconstitutional.
Barbour said he followed state law, albeit a badly written one, in scheduling the election for the same date as this year's general election. Hood said that the law requires a special election much sooner and that to wait until November "denies voters their constitutional and statutory right to vote."
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