The deadline for federal authorities to stop controversial changes to
election law in Macon and Bibb County has been greatly extended, casting
a shadow of uncertainty over the community’s most important local
election in decades.  In February, Democrats cried foul when the
GOP-controlled legislature voted to make most local elections in
Macon-Bibb nonpartisan, a change they say will help Republicans win
seats in the new consolidated city-county government that takes control
in 2014. 
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