rights. this is the event everyone wants to win. it is unbelievably exhilarating. the board of elections in georgia has rejected a plan that would have closed several predominantly african-american polling places ahead of the midterm elections. that proposal caused an uproar as critics claimed it was an attempt to suppress the black vote. and cnn s victor blackwell has more. if you don t vote, you get no rights. reporter: 76-year-old lester harmon votes in every election. at the benevolence fire station less than a minute s drive from his southwest georgia home. go up the road, you see it there on your left. reporter: but with just two-and-a-half months until the midterm election, a proposal to close his local polling place has outraged harmon and his neighbors. mike malone who was hired in april by the randolph county commission and the county board of elections to help with the midterms proposed slashing the polling places across this predominantly african-american county f