MACON, Ga. — Polls opened in Macon and Bibb County Tuesday at 7 a.m. as voters pick their first ever city-county commission and mayor.
This will be the first local election since voters in the city and county passed a consolidation referendum last August.
Early voting ahead of the Tuesday election was plagued with errors. Poll workers at the Bibb County Board of Elections headquarters mistakenly led at least 90 people to vote in the wrong commission district.
Election supervisor Jeanetta Watson says similar problems will be impossible Tuseday as voters head to their local polling places.
“Each poll, each precinct, their express poll unit — which is used to research which voters are in their district — those units are only programed to look up those voters that are in that precinct,” Watson said.
That means if you show up to your precinct and they don’t have your name on file, you’re voting in the wrong place, she said. Voters can get help figuring out their precinct and commission district by calling the Board of Elections office at 478-621-6622.
via Macon-Bibb Election Underway.
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