Macon Mayor Robert Reichert nearly managed to win the race to become the mayor of the new consolidated government Tuesday, but he fell a few hundred votes short of getting the total he needed to claim the race outright.
Instead, he’ll face former Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis in an Oct. 15 runoff. Ellis managed to stay alive in the race thanks to a late surge when absentee and advance ballots were counted after the precincts closed.
Reichert beat Ellis by about 500 votes for the mayor’s race in 2011, but he has a much bigger margin of support going into the Oct. 15 runoff.
Reichert finished with 17,810 votes, ahead of Ellis’ 10,838. Bibb County Chairman Sam Hart finished third with 4,101 votes, while former Chairman Charlie Bishop took in 2,452 votes. Bibb County Commissioner Joe Allen earned 613 votes, and businessman David Cousino managed just 107.
Bibb County Elections Supervisor Jeanetta Watson said an unknown number of provisional ballots still need to be tallied Wednesday.
A total of nearly 36,000 people — about 39 percent of the county’s 93,000 registered voters — turned up to cast ballots to select those who would serve in the city and county’s first consolidated government.
via Reichert, Ellis to meet in runoff once again | Elections | Macon.com.
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