Cuthbert, Gerogia (CNN) In a meeting that lasted less than 60 seconds, a Georgia elections board voted down a plan Friday to close seven of a majority-black county's nine polling places ahead of November's midterm elections. Dozens of people lined up outside the county government building Friday morning before they packed a courtroom and faced the two-person Randolph County Board of Elections. Board of Elections member Michele Graham quickly offered a motion that the board make no changes to the county's voting precincts. Young wrote in a letter to the elections board earlier this month. "In Randolph—a predominantly Black, rural, low-income county—the board of elections may cut the # of polling locations from 9 down to only 2.

Source: CNN August 24, 2018 09:36 UTC