The Department of Justice’s order to postpone elections for the new Macon-Bibb County government has left more uncertain than just the election date.
It also means the 30 candidates can’t be sure when they need to file campaign-finance disclosure reports.
“It’s all still a mystery,” said Adah Roberts, a candidate for the District 6 commission seat along with City Councilman Ed DeFore and former Bibb County Commission candidate Robert Abbott.
Roberts, a former city finance director, had planned to file her first report July 1 based on the initially set election date of July 16.
“The rule is that you file your first finance report 15 days before the special election,” she said Friday.
Instead, Roberts plans to call the state Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission and ask for instructions.
“If they want a report, I’m fine with that,” she said. “All we can do is wait and find out when the election is going to be.”
Asked by The Telegraph what the postponement would mean for finance report filing, neither the campaign finance commission nor the Georgia Attorney General’s Office would comment on the record.
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