Lawmakers look to shuffle some city election dates

In another round of wrangling over election dates, the Senate approved a measure Monday that could eliminate some city elections in May of even-numbered years.
The Senate changed a House bill dealing with military voting ballots by moving up the candidate filing deadline to the December before a primary election, instead of January. It keeps the state's primary election on the first Tuesday of March _ that's March 6 in 2012 _ but it moves the primary runoff to the fourth Tuesday in May.

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