staffing and travel needs. >> i mean, i don't see how making things better is such a bad thing. >> reporter: but freeman, a former school board member, says most of the people she meets knocking on doors didn't know about the proposal until last month. she and other voting rights activists believe eliminating all but one precinct in a 250-square-mile county that's nearly 30% black in an election year is just another example of voter suppression in georgia. >> i think it's meant to disenfranchise people of color. i think it's meant to disenfranchise the poor. this is about good old boys, their power and their will to stay in control. this is not what fair elections are about. >> i don't want to disenfranchise anybody. nobody, from being able to vote. >> reporter: county commission chairman walker norman in lincoln county politics since he was 18, says more than half the