In the first day of qualifying for the May 19 party primaries and nonpartisan general election, two non-incumbent Republican candidates — Frank Bedell III and Dr. Theodore "Ted" Redman — signed up to run for the same Bulloch County Board of Commissioners seat, Seat 2-B. Another non-incumbent Republican, Paul Roesel, signed up as a candidate for a different commission post, Seat 2-D.