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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Voters decide local races across the state

Voters across Georgia turned-out in various communities to decide races and referendum questions.

The races for mayor in Macon and Savannah were not close. Attorney Robert Reichert took a landslide win in becoming the next mayor of Macon. He will succeed Jack Ellis in the middle Georgia city. In Savannah, a six candidate race was easily won by Otis Johnson. He takes re-election as mayor of the coastal city.

Other various election results across the state:

- In Augusta, there will be runoff elections on December 4th for the District 2 and 4 Commission seats.

- In Warner Robins, runoff elections are scheduled for two city council races.

- In Columbus, voters narrowly defeated a measure that would have created tax allocation districts.

- In Rome, the city Commission will return four incumbents, and add three new faces.

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