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state legislature. the county is about 250 square miles and doesn t have public transportation. officials there said consolidating polling places would be more efficient. the board of elections was set to hold a vote yesterday but local activists delayed it. cnn s dianne gallagher has more details. reporter: reverend denise freeman is on a mission. how y all doing? reporter: going door to door. i didn t know you stayed here. reporter: gathering signatures from voters. have you signed the petition? reporter: in an effort to stop the new board of elections from replacing all seven of the county s voting precincts with just one voting center, the complex in lincolnton, for the entire rural county. this is a huge county. people live so far away. we don t have public transportation. we don t have access to lyft or uber or taxicab.
county s voting precincts with just one voting center, the colvin curry recreation complex in lincolnton, for the entire rural county. this is a huge county. people live so far away. we don t have public transportation. we don t have access of calling lyft or uber or a taxicab. we have nothing. reporter: just about 7,700 people live in the east georgia county where donald trump won more than 68% of the vote in 2020. notices for public hearings went out last september, advertising a move to make voting, quote, easier and more accessible. well, we probably had about 15 to 20 people at each public hearing. reporter: election director lavinda bolton said the board pitched the rec center has being big enough to support social distancing and voting equipment while also allowing the county to reduce staffing and travel
memory? correct. i don t know. do republican senators need somebody to call them to remind them that they need to reauthorize the voting rights act like george w. bush did and every republican did in 2006? i don t think so. it s really a shame. mika, right now i think republicans are being short sided because right now we are talking about of course mainly black americans who were fighting to have the voting rights act extended, hispanics. there is no guarantee that it won t be republicans. it won t be conservatives, it won t be the very people that are standing in the way of passing this that are not going to have their voting rights challenged in 5 or 10 or 15 years. a lot of voting precincts in