JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Latest on the vote by Mississippi’s members of the Electoral College (all times local):
10:25 a.m.
Republican Donald Trump has received all six of Mississippi’s electoral votes for president. He won the state by a wide margin in November.
The state’s Electoral College members cast their votes Monday in Jackson. Other electors were meeting across the nation.
Mississippi’s electors are former Fayette Mayor Charles Evers, a radio host and brother of slain Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers; Ann Hebert of Lucedale, who’s on the state Republican executive committee; Joe Frank Sanderson Jr. of Laurel, chairman and CEO of poultry company Sanderson Farms; J. Kelley Williams of Jackson, retired chairman and president of chemical company First Mississippi Corp.; William G. Yates Jr. of Philadelphia, chairman of Yates Construction; and Wirt A. Yerger Jr., of Jackson, a retired insurance broker who was state GOP chairman from 1956-1966.
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10 a.m.
The brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is casting one of Mississippi’s six votes in the Electoral College.
Charles Evers has switched political allegiances over the years. He is a former Democrat who became a Republican more than two decades ago. But, he supported President Barack Obama in the 2008 election.
Evers replaces Brad White as an elector. White, a former state Republican Party chairman, said he could not serve as an elector because he recently started a federal job - as chief of staff for Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.
Electors are meeting Monday in Jackson and across the nation to formally elect the next president.
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2:31 a.m.
Republican Donald Trump is on track to receive all six of Mississippi’s votes in the Electoral College after winning the state by a strong margin in November.
Electors are meeting Monday at state capitols across the nation to formally elect the next president.
Former Mississippi Republican chairman Brad White was selected months ago to be an elector but says he can’t fulfill the duty because he has recently started a federal job. The other electors will choose someone to serve in his place.
Four of Mississippi’s electors tell The Associated Press they’re firmly committed to voting for Trump. One declined to answer questions from AP, but he’s a longtime donor to Republican candidates.
People who want electors to dump Trump are expected to protest outside capitol buildings.
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This story corrects elector’s name to Hebert
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